Balaam’s Second Oracle: God’s Faithfulness

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But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:

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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

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I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.

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There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.

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God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.

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There is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel. In their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought.

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Behold the people shall rise up as a lioness, and shall lift itself up as a lion: it shall not lie down till it devour the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

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And Balac said to Balaam: Neither curse, nor bless him.

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And he said: Did I not tell thee, that whatsoever God should command me, that I would do?

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