Numbers 23:13-23
English Standard Version
Balaam's Second Oracle
13 And Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You shall see only a fraction of them and shall not see them all. Then curse them for me from there.” 14 And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, (A)and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar. 15 Balaam said to Balak, (B)“Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord over there.” 16 And the Lord met Balaam and (C)put a word in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.” 17 And he came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?” 18 And Balaam took up his discourse and said,
“Rise, Balak, and hear;
give ear to me, O son of Zippor:
19 (D)God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
20 Behold, I received a command to bless:
(E)he has blessed, and (F)I cannot revoke it.
21 (G)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 (H)God brings them out of Egypt
and is for them like (I)the horns of the wild ox.
23 For there is no enchantment against Jacob,
no (J)divination against Israel;
now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel,
(K)‘What has God wrought!’
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