³¹ And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

⁸ To this people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

⁹ He who remains in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans who besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.

¹⁰ For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good, says Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.