World English Bible
"Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, "Why do we sit here until we die?"
— 2 Kings 7:3, World English Bible
“And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?”
“Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? ”
“Now four men with a skin disease were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another,“Why are we just sitting here waiting to die?”
“Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?”
“Now there were four lepers seated at the doorway into the town: and they said to one another, Why are we waiting here for death?”
“And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?”
Elisha said, "Hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says Yahweh, 'Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'"
Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?" He said, "Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it."
Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, "Why do we sit here until we die?
If we say, 'We will enter into the city,' then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die."
They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there.
For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.