“Rise up, Balak, and hear!
    Listen to me, you son of Zippor!
¹⁹ God is not a man, that He should lie,
    nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He spoken, and will He not do it?
    Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
²⁰ See, I have received a commandment to bless,
    and He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

²¹ “He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob,
    nor has He seen perverseness in Israel.
The Lord his God is with him,
    and the shout of a king is among them.
²² God, who brings them out of Egypt,
    has strength like a wild ox.
²³ Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,
    nor is there any divination against Israel.
For this time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel,
    ‘See what God has done!’
²⁴ A people rises up as a great lion,
    and lifts itself up like a lion;
it shall not lie down until it eats the prey
    and drinks the blood of the slain.”