“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 said, and he won’t do it?
    Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?
²⁰ Behold, I have received a command to bless.
    He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
²¹ He has not seen iniquity in Jacob.
    Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel.
Yahweh his God is with him.
    The shout of a king is among them.
²² God brings them out of Egypt.
    He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
²³ Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob;
    Neither is there any divination with Israel.
Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,
    ‘What has God done!’
²⁴ Behold, a people rises up as a lioness.
    As a lion he lifts himself up.
He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey,
    and drinks the blood of the slain.”