2. Before the locusts could eat all the grass in the country, I said, “Lord GOD, I beg you, forgive us! Jacob cannot survive! He is too small!”
3. Then the Lord changed his mind about this. The Lord said, “It will not happen.”
4. This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw the Lord GOD calling for judgment by fire. The fire destroyed the ocean and was beginning to eat up the land.
5. But I said, “Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! Jacob cannot survive! He is too small!”
6. Then the Lord changed his mind about this. The Lord GOD said, “It will not happen either.”
7. This is what the Lord showed me: He stood by a wall with a plumb line in his hand. (The wall had been marked with a plumb line.)