Numbers 23:14-28

¹⁴And when he had led Balaam into an high place, on the top of the hill of Pisgah, he builded there seven altars to Balaam, and when calves and rams were put above them,

¹⁵Balaam said to Balak, Stand here beside thy burnt sacrifice, while I go to meet with the Lord.

¹⁶And when the Lord had met with Balaam, and had put a word in his mouth, he said, Turn again to Balak, and thou shalt say these things to him.

¹⁷He turned again, and found Balak standing beside his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of Moabites with him. To whom Balak said, What hath spoken the Lord?

¹⁸And when his parable was taken, he said, Stand thou, Balak, and hearken; hear, thou son of Zippor.

¹⁹God is not a man, that he lie, neither he is as the son of a man, that he be changed; therefore he hath said, and shall he not do it? he hath spoken, and shall he not fulfill it?

²⁰I am brought hither by the Lord to bless; I may not forbid, or hinder, blessing.

²¹None idol is in Jacob, neither simulacrum is seen in Israel; his Lord God is with him, and the sound of the victory of a king is in him.

²²The Lord God led him out of Egypt, whose strength is like an unicorn;

²³false divining by chittering of birds is not in Jacob, neither false divining is in Israel. In his times, when, where, and how God will, it shall be said to Jacob and to Israel, What the Lord hath wrought!

²⁴Lo! the people shall rise together as a lioness, and it shall be raised as a lion; the lion shall not rest, till he devour the prey, and drink the blood of them that be slain.

²⁵And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse thou, neither bless thou him.

²⁶And Balaam said, Whether I said not to thee, that whatever thing God commanded to me, I would do that?

²⁷And Balak said to him, Come, and I shall lead thee to another place, if in hap it pleaseth God that from thence thou curse him.

²⁸And when Balak had led him out on the top of the hill of Peor, that beholdeth the wilderness,