“Arise, O Balak, and hear;
Give ear to me, O son of Zippor!
^19 (A)God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent;
^(B)Has He said, and will He not do it?
Or has He spoken, and will He not establish it?
²⁰ Behold, I have received a command to bless;
^(C)When He has blessed, then ^(D)I cannot revoke it.
^21 (E)He has not observed ^[b]misfortune in Jacob;
^(F)Nor has He seen trouble in Israel;
^(G)Yahweh his God is with him,
^(H)And the shout of a king is among them.
^22 (I)God brings them out of Egypt,
He is for them like the ^(J)horns of the wild ox.
^23 (K)For there is no omen against Jacob,
Nor is there any divination against Israel;
At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob
And to Israel, what God has done!
^24 (L)Behold, a people rises like a lioness,
And as a lion it lifts itself;
It will not lie down until it devours the prey,
And drinks the blood of the slain.”