Bible in Basic English
"See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away."
— Numbers 23:20, Bible in Basic English
“Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.”
So he came to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with the chiefs of Moab by his side. And Balak said to him, What has the Lord said?
And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, Up! Balak, and give ear; give attention to me, O son of Zippor:
God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?
See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away.
He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them.
It is God who has taken them out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox.
No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!