God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up and go with them; but only the word which I speak to you shall you do.”

“In a dream, a vision of the night,
When sound sleep falls on men,
While they slumber in their beds,

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous Man; for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of Him.”

Thou shalt not curse

Now please, you also stay here tonight, and I will find out what else the Lord will speak to me.”

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a bare hill.

“My people, remember now
What Balak king of Moab counseled
And what Balaam son of Beor answered him,
And from Shittim to Gilgal,
So that you might know the righteous acts of the Lord.”

For they

“Behold, I have received a command to bless;

When He has blessed, then I cannot revoke it.

And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so

you shall be a blessing;

and said, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Nevertheless, the Lord your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you.

“Blessed are you, O Israel;

Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord,

Who is the shield of your help

And the sword of your majesty!

So your enemies will cringe before you,

And you will tread upon their high places.”

How blessed are the people who are so situated;
How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,

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

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 heavenly places in Christ,

General references

But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So he had to bless you, and I delivered you from his hand.