13. And Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from where you may see them. You will see part of them, but will not see them all. Curse them for me from there.”
14. He brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
15. He said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offerings while I meet the Lord over there.”
16. The Lord met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Go again to Balak, and thus you will speak.”
17. When he came to him, he was standing by his burnt offerings with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”
18. And 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 spoken, and will He not do it?Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
20. See, I have received a commandment to bless,and He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
21. “He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob,nor has He seen perverseness in Israel.The Lord his God is with him,and the shout of a king is among them.
22. God, who brings them out of Egypt,has strength like a wild ox.
23. Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob,nor is there any divination against Israel.For this time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel,‘See what God has done!’
24. A people rises up as a great lion,and lifts itself up like a lion;it shall not lie down until it eats the preyand drinks the blood of the slain.”
25. Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all, nor bless them at all.”
26. But Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not tell you, saying, ‘All that the Lord speaks, I must do’?”
27. And Balak said to Balaam, “Please come. I will bring you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”