From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?

You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work.

And they came to Balaam and said, Balak, son of Zippor, says, Let nothing keep you from coming to me:

From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?

You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you (but till now I was kept from it), so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations.

For the secret of evil is even now at work: but there is one who is keeping back the evil till he is taken out of the way.