Numbers 24:12-14

12Balaam said to Balak, ‘I already said this to the men that you sent to bring me.

13I told them, “I can only speak the message that the Lord tells me. I cannot do good things or bad things just because I want to do them. Even if Balak gives his palace full of silver and gold to me, I cannot do anything different. I have to obey the Lord's command.”

14So I will now return to my own people. But listen! Before I go, I will tell you what these Israelites will do to your people in the future.’