and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing:
Numbers 22:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed. American Standard Version (1901) And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people; for they are blessed. Common English Bible God said to Balaam, “Don’t go with them. Don’t curse the people, because they are blessed.” Catholic Public Domain Version And God said to Balaam, "Do not go with them, and do not curse the people, for they are blessed." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt thou curse the people: because it is blessed. |
and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing:
And Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, Since the people began to bring the oblations into the house of the LORD, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
Happy is the people, that is in such a case: Yea, happy is the people, whose God is the LORD.
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the LORD his God:
And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him; remember from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the righteous acts of the LORD.
Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covereth the face of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you.
come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob, Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go; peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height.
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
He couched, he lay down as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, And cursed be every one that curseth thee.
And while he was sitting on the judgement-seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that righteous man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:
For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand: he hath known thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Happy art thou, O Israel: Who is like unto thee, a people saved by the LORD, The shield of thy help, And that is the sword of thy excellency! And thine enemies shall submit themselves unto thee; And thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.