Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you! Have I now any power of my own to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.”
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the Lord my God to do less or more.
But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the Lord says, that I must do’?”
And the Lord met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.”
Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed; perhaps you may inspire terror.
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,
Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.
The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what my God says, that I will speak.”
But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”
‘If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will. What the Lord speaks, that will I speak’?
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