While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, "The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I -- only I alone -- escaped to tell you!"

"For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.