¹⁰ Elisha answered, “Go and say to him, ‘You will certainly recover.’^(A) Nevertheless,^[a] the Lord has revealed to me that he will in fact die.” ¹¹ He stared at him with a fixed gaze until Hazael was embarrassed.^(B) Then the man of God began to weep.^(C)

¹² “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael.

“Because I know the harm^(D) you will do to the Israelites,” he answered. “You will set fire to their fortified places, kill their young men with the sword, dash^(E) their little children^(F) to the ground, and rip open^(G) their pregnant women.”