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Numbers 24:23
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Balaam’s Seventh Message
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Then he spoke his message: “Alas! Who can live when God does this?
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Numbers 24:23 in Other Translations
KJV
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And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!
ESV
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And he took up his discourse and said, "Alas, who shall live when God does this?
NLT
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Balaam concluded his messages by saying: “Alas, who can survive unless God has willed it?
MSG
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Balaam spoke his final oracle-message: Doom! Who stands a chance when God starts in?
CSB
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Once more he proclaimed his poem: Ah, who can live when God does this?
Numbers 24:23 In-Context
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Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his message: “Your dwelling place is secure, your nest is set in a rock;
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yet you Kenites will be destroyed when Ashur takes you captive.”
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Then he spoke his message: “Alas! Who can live when God does this?
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Ships will come from the shores of Cyprus; they will subdue Ashur and Eber, but they too will come to ruin.”
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Then Balaam got up and returned home, and Balak went his own way.
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[a].
Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew "The people from the islands will gather from the north" .
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