Numbers 23:18-24

Common English Bible

“Arise, Balak, and listen;
    hear me out, Zippor’s son.
¹⁹ God isn’t a man that he would lie,
    or a human being that he would change his mind.
Has he ever spoken and not done it,
    or promised and not fulfilled it?
²⁰ I received a blessing, and he blessed.
    I can’t take it back.
²¹ He hasn’t envisioned misfortune for Jacob,
    nor has he seen trouble for Israel.
The Lord his God is with him,
    proclaimed as his king.
²² God, who brought them out of Egypt,
    is like a magnificent wild bull for him.
²³ There is no omen against Jacob,
    no divination against Israel.
Instantly it is told to Jacob,
    and to Israel, what God performs.
²⁴ A people now rises like a lioness,
    like a lion it stands up.
It doesn’t lie down until it eats the prey
    and drinks the blood of the slain.”