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!”