Bible verse
Then Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Arise, O Balak, and listen; give ear to me, O son of Zippor.
Numbers 23:18 · BSB
The verses around it, from Numbers 23.
14 So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
15 Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.”
16 And the LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak what I tell you.”
17 So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the princes of Moab. “What did the LORD say?” Balak asked.
18 Then Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Arise, O Balak, and listen; give ear to me, O son of Zippor.
19 God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
20 I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.
21 He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.
22 God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.
KJV
And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
ASV
And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
ERV
And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
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