1. This is what the Lord God showed me: He was forming a plague of locusts when the latter growth was beginning to sprout up, the latter growth after the king’s reaping.
2. When they had finished devouring the foliage of the land, I said, “O Lord God, please forgive. How can Jacob survive? For he is small.”
3. The Lord relented concerning this:“It shall not be,” said the Lord.
4. This is what the Lord God showed me: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It was consuming the great deep and was devouring the fields.
5. I said, “O Lord God, please stop. How can Jacob survive? For he is small.”
6. The Lord relented concerning this:“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.