Balak said to Balaam, “Come with me to another place. Perhaps it will be pleasing to God and you may curse them for me from there.”
He is unchangeable, and who can change Him? Whatever His soul desires, He does.
Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but the counsel of Adonai will stand.
There is no wisdom, there is no understanding, there is no counsel— against Adonai.
For Adonai-Tzva’ot has purposed, so who will annul it? Since His hand is stretched out, who will turn it back?
“For I am Adonai. I do not change, So you, children of Jacob, are not consumed.
Come now, curse this people for me, because they are too strong for me! Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them away from the country. I know that whoever you bless will be blessed and whoever you curse will be accursed!”
Then Balak said to him, “Come now with me to another place where you can see a part of them only, not all of them. Curse them for me from there.”
Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Haven’t I told you, ‘All that Adonai says, I must do?’
So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland.
for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.