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!
22. God is bringing them from Egypt with the strong horns of the wild ox!
23. There is no sorcery effective against Jacob, nor any divination against Israel! Now it will be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘See what God has done!’
24. The people rise like a lioness, like a lion who does not rest until he eats his prey and drinks his victim’s blood!”