And the LORD spake unto Gad, David’s seer [prophet], saying, Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things [three curses—choose one]: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to HIM that sent me. And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are HIS mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
Naye BWANA akanena na Gadi, mwonaji wa Daudi [nabii], akisema, Enenda ukanene na Daudi, ukisema, BWANA asema hivi, Nakuwekea mambo matatu [laana tatu – chagua moja] ujichagulie moja nikutendee hilo. Basi Gadi akamwendea Daudi, akamwambia, BWANA asema hivi, kubali upendavyo; miaka mitatu ya njaa; au miezi mitatu ya kuangamia mbele ya adui zako, ukipatwa na upanga na watesi wako; au siku tatu upanga wa BWANA, yaani tauni katika nchi, na malaika wa BWANA akiharibu kati ya mipaka yote ya Israeli.