You will speak with him and tell him what to say. I will help both you and him to speak and will teach you both what to do.
Numbers 23:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then the Lord put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said, ‘Return to Balak and say what I tell you.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the Lord put a speech in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak and thus shall you speak. American Standard Version (1901) And Jehovah put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. Common English Bible The LORD gave Balaam something to say, and said to him, “Return to Balak and say this.” Catholic Public Domain Version Then the Lord placed the word in his mouth, and he said: "Return to Balak, and you shall say this." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Lord put the word in his mouth, and said: Return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak. |
You will speak with him and tell him what to say. I will help both you and him to speak and will teach you both what to do.
The reflections of the heart belong to mankind, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
I have put my words in your mouth, and covered you in the shadow of my hand, in order to plant the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’
‘As for me, this is my covenant with them,’ says the Lord: ‘My Spirit who is on you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children’s children, from now on and for ever,’ says the Lord.
Then the Lord reached out his hand, touched my mouth, and told me: I have now filled your mouth with my words.
God came to Balaam at night and said to him, ‘Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.’
Then the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, ‘Go with the men, but you are to say only what I tell you.’ So Balaam went with Balak’s officials.
The Lord met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth. Then he said, ‘Return to Balak and say what I tell you.’
God met with him and Balaam said to him, ‘I have arranged seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.’
So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with all the officials of Moab.
For the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what must be said.’
He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.