² And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:

¹⁰ And I will send the sword, and need of food, and disease, among them till they are all cut off from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.