And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Jehovah beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Also he sente an aungel in to Jerusalem, þat he schulde smyte it; and whanne it was smytun, þe Lord siy, and hadde merci on þe greetnesse of yuel; and comaundide to þe aungel þat smoot, It suffisith, now thin hond ceesse. Forsoþe þe aungel of þe Lord stood bisidis þe cornfloor of Ornam Jebusey.