¹⁹ I will also ^(A)break down your pride of strength; I will also give your sky over to become like iron and your earth like bronze.

^16 [a](A)Beware lest your hearts be deceived, and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them, ¹⁷ and ^(B)the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and He will ^(C)shut up the heavens ^(D)so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and ^(E)you will perish quickly from the good land which Yahweh is giving you.

¹⁰ Then ^(A)David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. So David said to Yahweh, “^(B)I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Yahweh, please ^[a]take away the iniquity of Your slave, for ^(C)I have acted very foolishly.” ¹¹ Then David arose in the morning, and the word of Yahweh came to ^(D)the prophet Gad, David’s ^(E)seer, saying, ¹² “Go and speak to David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, and I will do that to you.”’” ¹³ So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall ^(F)seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your adversaries while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now, know and see what word I should return to Him who sent me.”