1 Chronicles 21:12-14

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² either three years of famine; or three months of devastation by your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence on the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to the one who sent me.” ¹³ Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress; let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is very great; but let me not fall into human hands.”

¹⁴ So the Lord sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand persons fell in Israel.