Numbers 24:23
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And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things?

Numbers 24:22
And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive.

Numbers 24:24
They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.

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And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things?

Chittim

Genesis 10:4 And the sons of Javan: Elisa and Tharsis, Cetthim and Dodanim.

Isaiah 23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is destroyed, from whence they were wont to come: from the land of Cethim it is revealed to them.

Daniel 7:19,20 After this I would diligently learn concerning the fourth beast, which was very different from all, and exceeding terrible: his teeth and claws were of iron: he devoured and broke in pieces, and the rest he stamped upon with his feet: . . .

Daniel 8:5-8,21 And I understood: and behold a he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and he touched not the ground, and the he goat had a notable horn between his eyes. . . .

Daniel 10:20 And he said: Dost thou know wherefore I am come to thee? And now I will return, to fight against the prince of the Persians. When I went forth, there appeared the prince of the Greeks coming.

Daniel 11:30 And the galleys and the Romans shall come upon him, and he shall be struck, and shall return, and shall have indignation against the covenant of the sanctuary, and he shall succeed: and he shall return, and shall devise against them that have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary.

and shall afflict Eber

Genesis 10:21-25 Of Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, the elder brother of Japheth, sons were born. . . .

Genesis 14:13 And behold one, that had escaped, told Abram the Hebrew, who dwelt in the vale of Mambre the Amorrhite, the brother of Escol, and the brother of Aner: for these had made a league with Abram.

Daniel 9:26,27 And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation. . . .

Matthew 24:15 When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth let him understand.

Luke 20:24 Shew me a penny. Whose image and inscription hath it? They answering, said to him: Caesar's.

Luke 23:29-31 For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck. . . .

John 11:48 If we let him alone so, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and take away our place and nation.

and he also

Daniel 2:35,45 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of a summer's threshing floor, and they were carried away by the wind: and there was no place found for them: but the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. . . .

Daniel 7:23-26 And thus he said: The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be greater than all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. . . .

Daniel 11:45 And he shall fix his tabernacle, Apadno, between the seas, upon a glorious and holy mountain: and he shall come even to the top thereof, and none shall help him.

Revelation 18:2-24 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird: . . .

Context
Balaam's Final Three Oracles
22And thou be chosen of the stock of Cin, how long shalt thou be able to continue? For Assur shall take thee captive. 23And taking up his parable, again he said: Alas, who shall live when God shall do these things?24They shall come in galleys from Italy, they shall overcome the Assyrians, and shall waste the Hebrews, and at the last they themselves also shall perish.…
Lexicon
Once more [Balaam] lifted up
וַיִּשָּׂ֥א (way·yiś·śā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

an oracle,
מְשָׁל֖וֹ (mə·šā·lōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4912: A pithy maxim, a simile

saying:
וַיֹּאמַ֑ר (way·yō·mar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“Ah,
א֕וֹי (’ō·w)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 188: Lamentation, Oh!

who
מִ֥י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

can live
יִחְיֶ֖ה (yiḥ·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2421: To live, to revive

unless God
אֵֽל׃ (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

has ordained it?
מִשֻּׂמ֥וֹ (miś·śu·mōw)
Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7760: Put -- to put, place, set


Additional Translations
Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this!

And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this?

And he looked upon Og, and took up his parable and said, Oh, oh, who shall live, when God shall do these things?

And he took up his parable, and said, Alas! Who shall live when God doeth this?

And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this?

And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this!

He took up his parable, and said, "Alas, who shall live when God does this?

And he taketh up his simile, and saith: 'Alas! who doth live when God doth this?
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