12 “Go,* and you must say to David, ‘This is what Jehovah has said: “Three things I am laying upon you.+ Choose for yourself one of them that I may do it to you.”’”+

7 “O sword, awake against my shepherd,+ even against the able-bodied man who is my associate,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah of armies. “Strike the shepherd,+ and let those of the flock be scattered;+ and I shall certainly turn my hand back upon those who are insignificant.”*+