Numbers 23:18-24

Christian Standard Bible

Balak, get up and listen;
son of Zippor, pay attention to what I say!
¹⁹ God is not a man, that he might lie,
or a son of man, that he might change his mind.^(A)
Does he speak and not act,
or promise and not fulfill?^(B)
20 I have indeed received a command to bless;
since he has blessed,^[a] I cannot change it.
²¹ He considers no disaster for Jacob;
he sees no trouble for Israel.^[b]
The Lord their God is with them,^(C)
and there is rejoicing over the King among them.
²² God brought them out of Egypt;
he is like the horns of a wild ox for them.^[c](D)
23 There is no magic curse against Jacob
and no divination against Israel.
It will now be said about Jacob and Israel,
“What great things God has done!”
²⁴ A people rise up like a lioness;
they rouse themselves like a lion.^(E)
They will not lie down until they devour the prey
and drink the blood of the slain.