14. He took him to Lookout Field on top of Pisgah. He built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
15. “Stay here beside your offering,” he said to Balak, “while I am meeting over there.”
16. Adonai met Balaam there and put a message into his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak and speak thus.”
17. So he went to him, and behold, he and the princes of Moab were standing beside his offering. Balak asked him, “What did Adonai say?”
18. So he uttered his oracle and said: “Rise, Balak! Hear me, son of Zippor!
19. God is not a man who lies, or a son of man who changes his mind! Does He speak and then not do it, or promise and not fulfill it?
20. Look, I received a command to bless. He has blessed—I cannot change it!
21. No misfortune is to be seen in Jacob, and no misery in Israel! Adonai their God is with them —the King’s shout is among them!