12. Balaam replied, “Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord has put in my mouth?”
13. Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you can observe them. You will see only a part of them, but you will not see all of them. Curse them for me from there.”
14. So Balak brought Balaam 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. And Balaam said to Balak, “Station yourself here by your burnt offering, while I meet the Lord there.
16. Then the Lord met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”
17. When Balaam came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”
18. Balaam uttered his oracle, and said,“Rise up, Balak, and hear;Listen to me, son of Zippor:
19. God is not a man, that he should lie,nor a human being, that he should change his mind.Has he said, and will he not do it?Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?
20. Indeed, I have received a command to bless;he has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.