Numbers 23:21
Good News Translation
I foresee that Israel's future Will bring her no misfortune or trouble. The LORD their God is with them; They proclaim that he is their king.

New Revised Standard Version
He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob; nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their God is with them, acclaimed as a king among them.

Contemporary English Version
Israel's king is the LORD God. He lives there with them and intends them no harm.

New American Bible
Misfortune I do not see in Jacob, nor do I see misery in Israel. The LORD, their God, is with them; among them is the war-cry of their King.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.

hath not

Psalm 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our iniquities from us.

Isaiah 1:18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

Isaiah 38:17 Behold in peace is my bitterness most bitter: but thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Jeremiah 50:20 In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none: and the sin of Juda, and there shall none be found: for I will be merciful to them, whom I shall leave.

Hosea 14:2-4 Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips. . . .

Micah 7:18-20 Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy. . . .

Romans 4:7 Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven: and whose sins are covered.

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

Romans 8:1 There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh.

2 Corinthians 5:19 For God indeed was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their sins. And he hath placed in us the word of reconciliation.

the Lord

Exodus 13:21 And the Lord went before them to shew the way, by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire; that he might be the guide of their journey at both times.

Exodus 29:45,46 And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will be their God: . . .

Exodus 33:14-16 And the Lord said: My face shall go before thee, and I will give thee rest. . . .

Exodus 34:9 Said: If I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, I beseech thee that thou wilt go with us, (for it is a stiffnecked people) and take away our iniquities and sin, and possess us.

Judges 6:13 And Gedeon said to him: I beseech thee, my lord, if the Lord be with us, why have these evils fallen upon us? Where are his miracles, which our fathers have told us of, saying: The Lord brought us out of Egypt but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand of Madian.

2 Chronicles 13:12 Therefore God is the leader in our army, and his priests who sound with trumpets, and resound against you: O children of Israel, fight not against the Lord the God of your fathers, for it is not good for you.

Psalm 23:4 For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.

Psalm 46:7,11 The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector. . . .

Isaiah 8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us.

Isaiah 12:6 Rejoice, and praise, O thou habitation of Sion: for great is he that is in the midst of thee, the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 41:1 Let the islands keep silence before me, and the nations take new strength: let them come near, and then speak, let us come near to judgment together.

Ezekiel 48:35 Its circumference was eighteen thousand: and the name of the city from that day, The Lord is there.

Matthew 1:23 Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

the shout

Psalm 47:5-7 God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet. . . .

Psalm 89:15,18 Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: . . .

Psalm 97:1 For the same David, when his land was restored again to him. The Lord hath reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad.

Psalm 118:15 The voice of rejoicing and of salvation is in the tabernacles of the just.

Isaiah 33:22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he will save us.

Luke 19:37,38 And when he was now coming near the descent of Mount Olivet, the whole multitude of his disciples began with joy to praise God with a loud voice, for all the mighty works they had seen, . . .

2 Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be to God, who always maketh us to triumph in Christ Jesus and manifesteth the odour of his knowledge by us in every place.

Context
Balaam's Second Oracle
20I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder. 21There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.22God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.…
Cross References
Exodus 3:12
And he said to him: I will be with thee; and this thou shalt have for a sign that I have sent thee: When thou shalt have brought my people out of Egypt, thou shalt offer sacrifice to God upon this mountain.

Numbers 14:18
The Lord is patient and full of mercy, by taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

Numbers 14:19
Forgive, I beseech thee, the sins of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy, as thou hast been merciful to them from their going out of Egypt unto this place.

Deuteronomy 9:24
But were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you.

Deuteronomy 31:23
And the Lord commanded Josue the son of Nun, and said: Take courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I have promised, and I will be with thee.

Deuteronomy 32:5
They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.

Deuteronomy 33:5
He shall be king with the most right, the princes of the people, being assembled with the tribes of Israel.

Psalm 32:2
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Psalm 32:5
I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.

Psalm 89:15
Blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:

Jeremiah 50:20
In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none: and the sin of Juda, and there shall none be found: for I will be merciful to them, whom I shall leave.

Numbers 23:20
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