American King James Version
"Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you to great honor; but, see, the LORD has kept you back from honor. "
— Numbers 24:11, American King James Version
“Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour.”
“Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honor; but, lo, Jehovah hath kept thee back from honor. ”
“Therefore now flee you to your place! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor."”
“So now, go back where you came from! I said that I would greatly honor you, but now the LORD has stood in the way of your honor.””
“Return to thy place. I had determined indeed greatly to honour thee, but the Lord hath deprived thee of the honour designed for thee.”
“Go back quickly to the place you came from: it was my purpose to give you a place of honour, but now the Lord has kept you back from honour.”
“Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour.”
God brought him forth out of Egypt; he has as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesses you, and cursed is he that curses you. ¶
And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.
Therefore now flee you to your place: I thought to promote you to great honor; but, see, the LORD has kept you back from honor.
And Balaam said to Balak, Spoke I not also to your messengers which you sent to me, saying,
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own mind; but what the LORD says, that will I speak?
And now, behold, I go to my people: come therefore, and I will advertise you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days. ¶