7:16 For it is better that as captives, being alive, we should bless the Lord, than that we should die and become a disgrace to all flesh, after we have seen our wives and our children die before our eyes.
7:16 Ngoba kungcono ukuthi bathumbe, useyaphila, kufanele umbonge uJehova, kunalokho kufanele we phoqoka phathelana kuyihlazo kuyo yonke inyama, ngemva sesibonile abafazi bethu nezingane zethu sife phambi kwamehlo ethu.