And Gad came in to David and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or shall you flee before your adversary three months, and he pursues you? Or shall three days’ plague in your land? Now consider, and see what I shall take back to Him who sent word to me.
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he did not finish. And wrath was on Israel for this. And the number did not go up in the account of the Matters of the Days of King David.
For I am with you, a statement of Jehovah, to save you. Though I make a full end among all nations where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end with you. But I will correct you with judgment, and I will not leave you free from guilt.
I also will walk contrary to them, and I will bring them into the land of their enemies. If their uncircumcised hearts are then humbled, and they then accept their guilt for their iniquity;
For the land shall be forsaken by them, and shall satisfy for its sabbaths, in the desolation without them. And they shall accept their guilt for their iniquity, because, even because, they have rejected My judgments, and their soul has loathed My statutes.