⁴ If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”

²² therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will punish them. Their young men^(A) will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.