Numbers 23:16-24

New International Version

¹⁶The Lord met with Balaam and put a word in his mouth^(A) and said, “Go back to Balak and give him this word.”

¹⁷So he went to him and found him standing beside his offering, with the Moabite officials.^(B) Balak asked him, “What did the Lord say?”

¹⁸Then he spoke his message:^(C)

“Arise, Balak, and listen;
    hear me, son of Zippor.^(D)
¹⁹God is not human,^(E) that he should lie,^(F)
    not a human being, that he should change his mind.^(G)
Does he speak and then not act?
    Does he promise^(H) and not fulfill?
²⁰I have received a command to bless;^(I)
    he has blessed,^(J) and I cannot change it.^(K)

²¹“No misfortune is seen in Jacob,^(L)
    no misery observed^[a] in Israel.^(M)
The Lord their God is with them;^(N)
    the shout of the King^(O) is among them.
²²God brought them out of Egypt;^(P)
    they have the strength of a wild ox.^(Q)
²³There is no divination against^[b] Jacob,
    no evil omens^(R) against^[c] Israel.
It will now be said of Jacob
    and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!’
²⁴The people rise like a lioness;^(S)
    they rouse themselves like a lion^(T)
that does not rest till it devours its prey
    and drinks the blood^(U) of its victims.”