16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord ^arepented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: ^bstay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

  23 But it is by the ^aprayers of the righteous that ye are spared; now therefore, if ye will ^bcast out the righteous from among you then will not the Lord stay his hand; but in his fierce anger he will come out against you; then ye shall be smitten by famine, and by pestilence, and by the sword; and the ^ctime is soon at hand except ye repent.