Numbers 23:5

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Numbers 23:5

And the LORD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

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Then the LORD met with Balaam and gave a message to him. "Now go back to Balak and speak to him."

But the angel of the LORD told Balaam, "Go with the men, but deliver only the message that I'm going to give you." So Balaam went with Balak's officials.

I will raise up a prophet like you from among their relatives, and I will place my words in his mouth so that he may expound everything that I have commanded to them.

People do the planning, but the end result is from the LORD.

I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of my hand, so that I could plant the heavens and lay the earth's foundations, to say to Zion, "You are my people.'

"As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "And my Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, won't depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children's children, from now on and forever."

The LORD stretched out his hand, touched my mouth, and then told me, "Look, I've put my words in your mouth.

because at that time the Holy Spirit will teach you what you are to say."

Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,