Numbers 23:18-24

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“Rise, Balak, and hear;
    listen to me, O son of Zippor:
¹⁹ God is not a human being, that he should lie,
    or a mortal, that he should change his mind.
Has he promised, and will he not do it?
    Has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?^(A)
20 See, I received a command to bless;
    he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.^(B)
21 He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob,
    nor has he seen trouble in Israel.
The Lord their God is with them,
    acclaimed as a king among them.^(C)
22 God, who brings them out of Egypt,
    is like the horns of a wild ox for them.^(D)
23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,
    no divination against Israel;
now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel,
    ‘See what God has done!’
²⁴ Look, a people rising up like a lioness
    and rousing itself like a lion!
It does not lie down until it has eaten the prey
    and drunk the blood of the slain.”^(E)