Numbers 23:27

New American Bible - revised edition

Then Balak said to Balaam, “Come, let me bring you to another place; perhaps God will approve of your laying a curse on them for me from there.”

Cross References

Job 23:13

But once he decides, who can contradict him? What he desires, that he does.

Proverbs 19:21

Many are the plans of the human heart, but it is the decision of the Lord that endures.

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel prevail against the Lord.

Isaiah 14:27

The Lord of hosts has planned; who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out; who can turn it back? Philistia.

Malachi 3:6

For I, the Lord, do not change, and you, sons of Jacob, do not cease to be.

Numbers 22:6

Now come, curse this people for me, since they are stronger than I am. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed and whoever you curse is cursed.”

Numbers 23:13

Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you can see them; but you will see only some, not all of them, and from there lay a curse on them for me.”

Numbers 23:26

But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘Everything the Lord tells me I must do’?” The Third Oracle.

Numbers 23:28

So he took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks Jeshimon.

Romans 11:29

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. Triumph of God’s Mercy.