But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So he had to bless you, and I saved you from his hand.

我不肯听巴兰的话，所以他倒为你们连连祝福。这样，我便救你们脱离巴勒的手。

但我不愿听巴兰，所以他反而为你们连连祝福。这样，我救了你们脱离他的手。

但我不愿听巴兰，所以他反而为你们连连祝福。这样，我救了你们脱离他的手。

我不但没有听巴兰的话，反而使他为你们连连祝福。这样，我从巴勒手中救了你们。

我不肯听巴兰的话，结果他反而一而再祝福你们；这样，我就救了你们脱离他的手。

我不肯聽巴蘭的話，所以他倒為你們連連祝福。這樣，我便救你們脫離巴勒的手。

但我不願聽巴蘭，所以他反而為你們連連祝福。這樣，我救了你們脫離他的手。

但我不願聽巴蘭，所以他反而為你們連連祝福。這樣，我救了你們脫離他的手。

我不但沒有聽巴蘭的話，反而使他為你們連連祝福。這樣，我從巴勒手中救了你們。

我不肯聽巴蘭的話，結果他反而一而再祝福你們；這樣，我就救了你們脫離他的手。

我不情願聽巴蘭；他倒連連給你們祝起福來；這樣，我便援救了你們脫離巴勒的手。

我不聽之、彼乃祝爾、如是救爾脫於其手、

我不許巴蘭咒詛、反使祝福、故爾得脫。

我不許巴蘭詛、原文作我不欲聽巴蘭反使之為爾祝福、救爾脫於其手、

But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you out of his hand.

But I would not listen to Balaam’s curses. So he blessed you again and again. And I saved you from his power.

but I would not listen to Balaam. Indeed, he blessed you. So I delivered you out of his hand.

but I would not listen to him. Instead, I made Balaam bless you, and so I rescued you from Balak.

but I would not listen to Balaam. Instead, he repeatedly blessed you, and I rescued you from him.

But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he continued to bless you. So I delivered you out of his hand.

but I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

but I would not listen to Balaam. Instead, he repeatedly blessed you, and I delivered you from his hand.

But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept prophesying good things about you, and I rescued you from his power.

but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.

No weapon that is formed against you will succeed; And you will condemn every tongue that accuses you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their vindication is from Me,” declares the Lord.

But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak,“ Even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything, either small or great, contrary to the command of the Lord my God.Now please, you also stay here tonight, and I will find out what else the Lord will say to me.”And God came to Balaam at night and said to him,“ If the men have come to call you, rise and go with them; but you shall do only the thing that I tell you.”

Nevertheless, the Lord your God was unwilling to listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you.

‘ Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt, and they cover the surface of the land; now come, curse them for me; perhaps I will be able to fight against them and drive them out.’ ”But God said to Balaam,“ Do not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

How pleasant are your tents, Jacob, Your dwelling places, Israel!Like valleys that stretch out, Like gardens beside a river, Like aloes planted by the Lord, Like cedars beside the waters.Water will flow from his buckets, And his seed will be by many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.God brings him out of Egypt, He is for him like the horns of the wild ox. He will devour the nations who are his adversaries, And will crush their bones, And smash them with his arrows.He crouches, he lies down like a lion, And like a lioness, who dares to rouse him? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, And cursed is everyone who curses you.”Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam,“ I called you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have persisted in blessing them these three times!

Then he said to Balak,“ Stand here beside your burnt offering while I myself meet the Lord over there.”Then the Lord met Balaam and put a word in his mouth, and said,“ Return to Balak, and this is what you shall speak.”So he came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab with him. And Balak said to him,“ What has the Lord spoken?”Then he took up his discourse and said,“ Arise, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, son of Zippor!God is not a man, that He would lie, Nor a son of man, that He would change His mind; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?Behold, I have received a command to bless; When He has blessed, I cannot revoke it.He has not looked at misfortune in Jacob; Nor has He seen trouble in Israel; The Lord his God is with him, And the joyful shout of a king is among them.God brings them out of Egypt, He is for them like the horns of the wild ox.For there is no magic curse against Jacob, Nor is there any divination against Israel; At the proper time it shall be said to Jacob And to Israel, what God has done!Behold, a people rises like a lioness, And like a lion it raises itself; It will not lie down until it devours the prey, And drinks the blood of those slain.”Then Balak said to Balaam,“ Do not curse them at all nor bless them at all!”But Balaam replied to Balak,“ Did I not tell you,‘ Whatever the Lord speaks, I must do’?”

Then Balaam said to Balak,“ Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a bare hill.Now God met with Balaam, and he said to Him,“ I have set up the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.”Then the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said,“ Return to Balak, and this is what you shall speak.”So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab.And he took up his discourse and said,“ From Aram Balak has brought me, Moab’s king from the mountains of the East, saying,‘ Come, declare Jacob cursed for me, And come, curse Israel!’How am I to put a curse on him upon whom God has not put a curse? And how am I to curse him whom the Lord has not cursed?For I see him from the top of the rocks, And I look at him from the hills; Behold, a people that lives in isolation, And does not consider itself to be among the nations.Who has counted the dust of Jacob, Or the number of the fourth part of Israel? May I die the death of the upright, And may my end be like his!”Then Balak said to Balaam,“ What have you done to me? I took you to put a curse on my enemies, but behold, you have actually blessed them!”He replied,“ Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”

But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam,“ Go with the men, but you shall speak only the word that I tell you.” So Balaam went along with the representatives of Balak.