“Rise, Balak, and hear;
    hearken to me, O son of Zippor:
¹⁹ God is not man, that he should lie,
    or a son of man, that he should repent.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
    Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfil it?
²⁰ Behold, 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,
    and the shout of a king is among them.
²² God brings them out of Egypt;
    they have as it were the horns of the wild ox.
²³ For there is no enchantment against Jacob,
    no divination against Israel;
now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel,
    ‘What has God wrought!’
²⁴ Behold, a people! As a lioness it rises up
    and as a lion it lifts itself;
it does not lie down till it devours the prey,
    and drinks the blood of the slain.”