English Bible Presentation Sharing - Numbers Book, chapter 23, verse 19 in Mkjv Version

Numbers 23 : 1 (MKJV)

And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare here seven oxen and seven rams for me.

Numbers 23 : 2 (MKJV)

And Balak did as Balaam had spoken. And Balak and Balaam offered on the altar a bull and a ram.

Numbers 23 : 3 (MKJV)

And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps Jehovah will come to meet me. And whatever He reveals to me I will tell you. And he went to a high place.

Numbers 23 : 4 (MKJV)

And God met Balaam. And he said to Him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon the altar a bull and a ram.

Numbers 23 : 5 (MKJV)

And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth and said, Return to Balak, and so you shall speak.

Numbers 23 : 6 (MKJV)

And he returned to him. And lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he and all the leaders of Moab.

Numbers 23 : 7 (MKJV)

And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.

Numbers 23 : 8 (MKJV)

How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? Or how shall I defy whom Jehovah has not defied?

Numbers 23 : 9 (MKJV)

For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him. Lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be counted among the nations.

Numbers 23 : 10 (MKJV)

Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Numbers 23 : 11 (MKJV)

And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have kept on blessing them!

Numbers 23 : 12 (MKJV)

And he answered and said, Must I not be careful to speak that which Jehovah has put in my mouth?

Numbers 23 : 13 (MKJV)

And Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place from where you may see them. You shall see only their edge, and shall not see them all. And curse them from there for me.

Numbers 23 : 14 (MKJV)

And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on every altar.

Numbers 23 : 15 (MKJV)

And he said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering while I meet Him yonder.

Numbers 23 : 16 (MKJV)

And Jehovah met Balaam and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again to Balak and say this.

Numbers 23 : 17 (MKJV)

And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab were with him. And Balak said to him, What has Jehovah spoken?

Numbers 23 : 18 (MKJV)

And he took up his parable and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear. Listen to me, son of Zippor.

Numbers 23 : 19 (MKJV)

God is not a man that He should lie, neither the son of man that He should repent. Has He said, and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken, and shall He not make it good?

Numbers 23 : 20 (MKJV)

Behold, I have received word to bless. And He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

Numbers 23 : 21 (MKJV)

He has not seen iniquity in Jacob, neither has He seen perverseness in Israel. Jehovah his God is with him, and the shout of a king among them.

Numbers 23 : 22 (MKJV)

God brought them out of Egypt. He has, as it were, the strength of an ox.

Numbers 23 : 23 (MKJV)

Surely, there is no spell against Jacob, nor any fortune-telling against Israel. According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What God has worked!

Numbers 23 : 24 (MKJV)

Behold, the people shall rise up like a great lion, and lift up himself like a young lion. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.

Numbers 23 : 25 (MKJV)

And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all.

Numbers 23 : 26 (MKJV)

But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell you, saying, All that Jehovah speaks, that I must do?

Numbers 23 : 27 (MKJV)

And Balak said to Balaam, Please, come. I will bring you into another place. Perhaps it will please God that you will curse them for me from there.

Numbers 23 : 28 (MKJV)

And Balak brought Balaam to the top of Peor that looks toward Jeshimon.

Numbers 23 : 29 (MKJV)

And Balaam said to Balak, Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams here for me.

Numbers 23 : 30 (MKJV)

And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on the altar.