Numbers 23:18-24

¹⁸Then he took up his discourse and said,

“Arise, Balak, and hear;

Listen to me, son of Zippor!

19“God is not a man, that He would lie,

Nor a son of man, that He would change His mind;

Has He said, and will He not do it?

Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

20“Behold, I have received a command to bless;

When He has blessed, I cannot revoke it.

21“He has not looked at misfortune in Jacob;

Nor has He seen trouble in Israel;

The Lord his God is with him,

And the joyful shout of a king is among them.

22“God brings them out of Egypt,

He is for them like the horns of the wild ox.

23“For there is no magic curse against Jacob,

Nor is there any divination against Israel;

At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob

And to Israel, what God has done!

24“Behold, a people rises like a lioness,

And like a lion it raises itself;

It will not lie down until it devours the prey,

And drinks the blood of those slain.”