23 Bible Verses about Oracles

And Balaam will say to Balak, Behold, I come to thee: being able, shall I be able to speak any thing? the word which Jehovah shall put in my mouth I will speak it

And Balaam will answer, and say to the servants of Balak, If Balak will give to me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to pass over the mouth of Jehovah my God to do little or great And now, sit ye down, now also in here this night, and I shall know what Jehovah will add to speak with me.

And Balak will say to Balaam, What didst thou to me? To curse mine enemies I took thee, and behold, praising, thou didst praise. And he will answer and say, What Jehovah shall put in my mouth shall I not watch, to speak?

And Balaam will say to Balak, Also to thy messengers which thou sentest to me, spake I not, saying, If Balak will give to me his house full of silver and gold, I shall not be able to pass by the mouth of Jehovah, to do good or evil from my heart; what Jehovah shall speak I will speak it

And Balsam will lift up his eyes and see Israel dwelling according to his tribes; and the spirit of God will be upon him. And he will take up his parable and say, Balaam, the son of Beor, and the man of unclosed eye, said; He said, hearing the sayings of God, who will see the vision of the Almighty, falling, and the eyes being uncovered:

And Balsam will say to Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go; perhaps Jehovah will come to my meeting: and the word which he will shew to me I will announce to thee. And he will go to the naked hill And God will meet Balaam, and he will say to him, I arranged seven altars, and I will bring up a bullock and a ram upon the altar. And Jehovah will put the word in Balaam's mouth, and say, Turn back to Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

And he will take up his parable, and say, Balaam the son of Beor, said, and the man of unclosed eye, said: He said, hearing the sayings of God, honoring the knowledge of the Most High, he will see the vision of the Almighty, falling, and the eyes being uncovered:

And he will turn back to him, and behold, he stood by his burnt-offering, he, and all the leaders of Moab. And he will take up his parable, and say, From Aram, Balak, king of Moab, will transfer me from the mountains of the east; Come curse to me Jacob and come and be angry at Israel How shall I curse, God cursing not? And how shall I be angry, God not being angry?read more.
From the head of the rocks I shall see him, and from the hills I shall look after him: behold, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. Who divided out the dust of Jacob and who numbered the fourth of Israel? My soul shall die the death of the just, and my latter state shall be as his.

And he will take up his parable, and say, Rise up, Balak, and hear; and give ear to me, son of Zippor: God is not man, and will he lie? and the son of man, and will he grieve? Did he say, and will he not do? and speak, and will he not establish? Behold, I was taken to praise: and he praised and I shall not turn it back.read more.
He saw not iniquity in Jacob and he saw not sorrow in Israel: Jehovah his God with him, and the shouts of a king in them. God bringing them out of Egypt; as the swiftness of the buffalo to him. For no enchantment in Jacob, and no divination in Israel; according to the time it will be said to Jacob and to Israel, What did God do! Behold, the people will rise up as a lioness, and as a lion he will be lifted up: he will not lie down till he shall eat the prey and drink the blood of the wounded.

And Balsam will lift up his eyes and see Israel dwelling according to his tribes; and the spirit of God will be upon him. And he will take up his parable and say, Balaam, the son of Beor, and the man of unclosed eye, said; He said, hearing the sayings of God, who will see the vision of the Almighty, falling, and the eyes being uncovered:read more.
How good thy tents, Jacob, and thy dwellings, Israel! As valleys extended, as a garden by the river, as tents Jehovah pitched, as cedars by the waters. He will shake out the water from his bucket, and his seed in many waters, and his king shall be lifted up above Agag, and his kingdom shall be raised up. God brought him forth out of Egypt; as the swiftness of the buffalo to him: he shall cut up the nations his enemies; he shall cut off their strong defences, and he shall smite through his arrows. He bowed; he lay down as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall raise him up? Praised he praising thee, and cursed he cursing thee.

The lifting up the word of Jehovah to Israel by the hand of Malachi.

The burden of Babel which Isaiah son of Amos saw.

In the year king Ahaz died was this burden.

The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south for passing through, from the desert it came, from a fearful land. A hard vision was announced to me: The spoiler spoiled, and he laying waste, laid waste. Go up, O Elam: press, O Media; all her sighing I caused to cease. For this, my loins were filled with pain: distress took hold of me as the pains of her bringing forth: I was shaken from hearing; I trembled from seeingread more.
My heart wandered; trembling made me afraid: the evening twilight of my desire he put to me for fear. Set in order the table; view the watch-tower; eat, drink: arise ye chiefs, anoint the shield. For thus said Jehovah to me, Go set up a watchman, he shall announce what he shall see. He will see a chariot, a pair of horse men, the rider of an ass, the rider of a camel; and listening, he listened with much attention. And he will call, A lion: on the watch-tower my lord, I stand continually in the day, and upon my watch I stand all the night And behold, here came a chariot, a man, a pair of horsemen. And he will answer and say, She fell, Babel fell; and the carved images of her god he brake in pieces to the earth. O my threshing, and the son of my threshing-floor, what I heard from Jehovah of armies the God of Israel, I announced to you. The burden of Dumah. He called to me from Seir, Watch, what of the night? watch, what of the night? The watch said, I will mark out morning, and also night; if ye will seek, seek ye: turn back, come. The burden of Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, ye wayfarers of Dedanim. To meet the thirsty, bring ye water, O inhabitants of the land of Tema: anticipate ye him wandering, with bread. For they fled from the face of the swords, the sword drawn out, and from the face of the bent bow, and from the face of the heaviness of war. For thus said the Lord to me, Within yet a year; as the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar was finished. And the rest of the bows of the strong sons of Kedar shall be few: for Jehovah God of Israel spake.

The burden of quadrupeds of the south: into the land of straits and distress, the lioness and the lion from them, the viper and the burning flying they will lift up upon the shoulder of young asses, their riches, and upon the humps of camels their treasures, for a people who shall not profit And the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I called to this their violence ceased. Now go, write it to them upon a tablet, and engrave it upon a book, and it shall be for the latter day, forever even forever.read more.
For this is a people of contradiction, sons of lies, sons who will not to hear the law of Jehovah. Who said to the seeing, Ye shall not see, and to the perceiving, Ye shall not perceive for us right things, speak to us smooth things, perceive delusions. Remove from the way, turn aside from the path, cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.

And I shall do thus as I was commanded: I brought forth the vessels as vessels of captivity by day, and in the evening I broke through for me in the wall with the hand; in the thick darkness I brought forth, upon the shoulder I lifted up before their eyes. And the word of Jehovah will be to me in the morning, saying, Son of man, did not the house of Israel, the house of contradiction, say to thee, What doest thou?read more.
Say to them, thus said the Lord Jehovah: The ruler of this burden in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel which they are in the midst of them. Say, I am your wonder: as I did, so it shall be done to them: by emigrating, they shall go into captivity.

The lifting up of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Thy prophets saw for thee vanity and a foolish thing, and they uncovered not upon thine iniquity to turn back thy captivity; and they will see for thee burdens of falsehood and seductions.

And when this people, or prophet, or priest, shall ask thee, saying, What the burden of Jehovah? and thou saidst to them, What burden? And I cast you off, says Jehovah. And the prophet and the priest and the people which shall say, The burden of Jehovah, and I reviewed upon that man, and upon his house. Thus shall ye say, a man to his neighbor, a man to his brother, What answered Jehovah? and what spake Jehovah?read more.
And ye shall no more make mention of the burden of Jehovah, for the burden to a man shall be his word; and ye perverted the words of the living God, Jehovah of armies our God. Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What answered Jehovah? and what spake Jehovah? And if ye shall say, The burden of Jehovah; for this, thus said Jehovah, Because ye said this word, The burden of Jehovah, and I shall send to you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of Jehovah: Therefore behold me, and neglecting, I deserted you, and I cast you off, and the city which I gave to you and to your fathers from my face. And I gave upon you an eternal reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

Divining upon the lips of the king: his mouth will not transgress in judgment

To the overseer, to the servant of Jehovah: to David. A song of transgression to the unjust one in the midst of my heart, no fear of God before his eyes.

And these the last words of David. The declaration of David, son of Jesse, and the declaration of the man raised up for the Messiah of the God of Jacob, and the sweet songs of Israel. The spirit of Jehovah spake in me, and his word upon my tongue. The God of Israel said to me, the Rock of Israel spake a parable upon the just man: a parable to fear God.read more.
And as the light of the morning the sun will rise: the morning not dense; from the shining of the rain bringing forth herbage from the earth.