11. Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether.”
12. He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord puts in my mouth?”
13. Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, where you may see them. You shall see just part of them, and shall not see them all. Curse them from there for me.”
14. He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
15. He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet God over there.”
16. The Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
17. He came to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”
18. He took up his parable, and said,“Rise up, Balak, and hear!Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
19. God is not a man, that he should lie,nor a son of man, that he should repent.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.He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
21. He has not seen iniquity in Jacob.Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel.The Lord his God is with him.The shout of a king is amongst them.
22. God brings them out of Egypt.He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
23. Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob;Neither is there any divination with Israel.Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel,‘What has God done!’