Numbers 23:18-24

GOD’S WORD Translation

“Stand up, Balak, and listen!
Hear me, son of Zippor!
¹⁹ God is not like people. He tells no lies.
He is not like humans. He doesn’t change his mind.
When he says something, he does it.
When he makes a promise, he keeps it.
²⁰ I have received a command to bless.
He has blessed, and I can’t change it.
²¹ He doesn’t want any trouble for the descendants of Jacob.
He sees no misfortune for the people of Israel.
The Lord their God is with them,
praised as their king.
²² The God who brought them out of Egypt
has the strength of a wild bull.
²³ No spell can curse the descendants of Jacob.
No magic can harm the people of Israel.
Now it will be said of Jacob and Israel:
‘See what God has done!’
²⁴ Here is a nation that attacks like a lioness
and is as ferocious as a lion.
It doesn’t lie down until it eats its prey
and drinks the blood of its victim.”