Numbers 23:18-24

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

‘Rise, Balak, and hear;
    listen to me, O son of Zippor:
¹⁹ God is not a human being, that he should lie,
    or a mortal, that he should change his mind.
Has he promised, and will he not do it?
    Has he spoken, and will he not fulfil it?
²⁰ See, I received a command to bless;
    he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.
²¹ He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob;
    nor has he seen trouble in Israel.
The Lord their God is with them,
    acclaimed as a king among them.
²² God, who brings them out of Egypt,
    is like the horns of a wild ox for them.
²³ Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,
    no divination against Israel;
now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel,
    “See what God has done!”
²⁴ Look, a people rising up like a lioness,
    and rousing itself like a lion!
It does not lie down until it has eaten the prey
    and drunk the blood of the slain.’