And God came to Balaam by night, and said to him, If these men have come to call you, rise and follow them; nevertheless the word which I shall speak to you, this shall you do.

[sending] a dream, or in the meditation of the night (as when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, while sleeping on the bed),

to turn a man from unrighteousness, and He delivers his body from a fall.

Now as he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that just Man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of Him."

And now, you also tarry here this night, and I shall know what the Lord will yet say to me.

And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your sacrifice, and I will go and see if God will appear to me and meet me, and the word which He shall show me, I will report to you. And Balak stood by his sacrifice.

And Balak said to him, Come yet with me to another place where you shall not see the people, but you shall only see a part of them, and shall not see them all; and curse them for me from there.

And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your sacrifice, and I will go to inquire of God.

O My people, remember now, what counsel Balak king of Moab took against you, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, from the reeds to Gilgal; that the righteousness of the Lord might be known.

Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: I will bless, and not turn back.

And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed.

I have sworn by Myself, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and on My account have not spared your beloved son,

And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.

But the Lord your God would not hearken to Balaam; and the Lord your God changed the curses into blessings, because the Lord your God loved you.

Blessed [are] you, O Israel; who [is] like you, O people saved by the Lord? Your helper shall hold His shield over you, and [His] sword [is] your boast; and your enemies shall speak falsely to you, and you shall tread upon their neck.

Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, [but] blessed are the people whose God is the Lord.

Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

just as David also speaks of the blessing of the man to whom God accounts righteousness apart from works:

"Blessed [are] [they] whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins were covered over;

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ,