If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
Wheþer we wolen entre in to þe citee, we schulen die for hungur; wheþer we dwellen here, we schulen die. Þerfor come ye, and fle we ouer to þe castels of Sirie; if þei schulen spare vs, we schulen lyue; soþeli if þei wolen sle, neþeles we schulen die.