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 fulfill?
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 Jacob and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!’