2. "Let your indignation concerning us cease. For it is better for us to live in service to Nebuchadnezzar, the great king, and to become subject to you, rather than to die, even though we may have to suffer our condemnation into the annihilation of slavery.
3. All our cities and all our possessions, all mountains, and hills, and fields, and herds of cattle, and flocks of sheep, and goats, and horses, and camels, and all our resources and families are in your sight.
4. Let all that we have be subject to your law.
5. We, and our sons, are your servants.
6. Come to us as a peaceful lord, and use our service, just as it pleases you."
7. Then he descended from the mountains with horsemen, in great power, and he took charge of every city and of every inhabitant of the land.