Numbers 24:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He crouched; he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, and cursed is everyone who curses you.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:3

I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Genesis 27:29

Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”

Genesis 49:9

Judah is a lion’s whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches down, he stretches out like a lion, like a lioness—who dares rouse him up?

1 Kings 10:20

while twelve lions were standing, one on each end of a step on the six steps. Nothing like it was ever made in any kingdom.

2 Chronicles 9:18

The throne had six steps and a footstool of gold, which were attached to the throne, and on each side of the seat were arm rests and two lions standing beside the arm rests,

Esther 6:13

When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is of the Jewish people, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”

Job 41:10

No one is so fierce as to dare to stir it up. Who can stand before it?

Psalm 122:6

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.

Psalm 2:12

kiss his feet, or he will be angry, and you will perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Happy are all who take refuge in him.

Exodus 23:22

“But if you listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes.

Isaiah 31:4

For thus the Lord said to me, “As a lion or a young lion growls over its prey and, when a band of shepherds is called out against it, is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the Lord of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.

Micah 5:8

And among the nations the remnant of Jacob, surrounded by many peoples, shall be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, with no one to deliver.

Numbers 22:12

God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

Numbers 22:6

Come now, curse this people for me, since they are stronger than I; perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that whomever you bless is blessed, and whomever you curse is cursed.”

Numbers 23:24

Look, a people rising up like a lioness and rousing itself like a lion! It does not lie down until it has eaten the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.”

Numbers 24:10

Then Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, “I summoned you to curse my enemies, but instead you have blessed them these three times.

Matthew 25:40

And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.’

Matthew 25:45

Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’

Acts 9:5

He asked, “Who are you, Lord?” The reply came, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

Deuteronomy 30:7

The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on the adversaries who took advantage of you.