14. So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
15. Balaam said to Balak, ‘Stay here beside your offering while I meet with him over there.’
16. The Lord met with Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, ‘Go back to Balak and give him this word.’
17. So he went to him and found him standing beside his offering, with the Moabite officials. Balak asked him, ‘What did the Lord say?’
18. Then he spoke his message:‘Arise, Balak, and listen;hear me, son of Zippor.
19. God is not human, that he should lie,not a human being, that he should change his mind.Does he speak and then not act?Does he promise and not fulfil?
20. I have received a command to bless;he has blessed, and I cannot change it.
21. ‘No misfortune is seen in Jacob,no misery observed in Israel.The Lord their God is with them;the shout of the King is among them.
22. God brought them out of Egypt;they have the strength of a wild ox.
23. There is no divination against Jacob,no evil omens against Israel.It will now be said of Jacoband of Israel, “See what God has done!”
24. The people rise like a lioness;they rouse themselves like a lionthat does not rest till it devours its preyand drinks the blood of its victims.’