2 Kings 7:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering the man of God, said: If the Lord should make flood-gates in heaven, can that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

³ 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?

⁴ If we will enter into the city, we shall die with the famine: and if we will remain here, we must also die: come, therefore, and let us run over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare us, we shall live: but if they kill us, we shall but die.