Numbers 23:18-24

The Voice

Balaam: Listen up, Balak, and attend to these words:
        Hear, son of Zippor, what God has to say to you.
¹⁹     God is not a man—He doesn’t lie.
        God isn’t the son of a man to want to take back what He’s said,
    Or say something and not follow through,
        or speak and not act on it.

²⁰     Look here, I received a word of blessing,
        and He has spoken a blessing.
        I cannot take it back.
²¹     There is no vision of wrongdoing by Jacob;
        God has seen no trouble for Israel.
    The Eternal One abides among them;
        and the shout of a king is among them.
²²     God, who leads them out of Egypt,
        His splendor is like the wild bull:
²³     There is no divination against Jacob
        or enchantment against Israel.
    Soon, people will say of Jacob and Israel,
        “Look at what God has accomplished!”
²⁴     Look at this people rise up like a lion,
        like a lion who gets up and does not lie down
        until it devours its prey,
        even drinking the blood of the slain.