Then the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, "Go back to Balak, and thus you shall speak."

Then the Angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but only the word that I speak to you, that you shall speak." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

'I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.

The preparations of the heart [belong] to man, But the answer of the tongue [is] from the LORD.

A man's heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.

And I have put My words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, And say to Zion, 'You [are] My people.' "

"As for Me," says the LORD, "this [is] My covenant with them: My Spirit who [is] upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants' descendants," says the LORD, "from this time and forevermore."

Then the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

"For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say."

Now this he did not say on his own [authority;] but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,