⁷¹ and he began to anathematize, and to swear -- `I have not known this man of whom ye speak;'

¹² And Hazael saith, `Wherefore is my lord weeping?' and he saith, `Because I have known the evil that thou dost to the sons of Israel -- their fenced places thou dost send into fire, and their young men with sword thou dost slay, and their sucklings thou dost dash to pieces, and their pregnant women thou dost rip up.'

¹³ And Hazael saith, `But what, `is' thy servant the dog, that he doth this great thing?' And Elisha saith, `Jehovah hath shewed me thee -- king of Aram.'

¹⁴ And he goeth from Elisha, and cometh in unto his lord, and he saith unto him, `What said Elisha to thee?' and he saith, `He said to me, Thou dost certainly recover.'

¹⁵ And it cometh to pass on the morrow, that he taketh the coarse cloth, and dippeth in water, and spreadeth on his face, and he dieth, and Hazael reigneth in his stead.

³² In those days hath Jehovah begun to cut off `some' in Israel, and Hazael smiteth them in all the border of Israel,

⁹ Crooked `is' the heart above all things, And it `is' incurable -- who doth know it?

¹² so that he who is thinking to stand -- let him observe, lest he fall.