1. Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings.
2. And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said:“O Lord God, forgive, I pray!Oh, that Jacob may stand,For he is small!”
3. So the Lord relented concerning this.“It shall not be,” said the Lord.
4. Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, the Lord God called for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the territory.
5. Then I said:“O Lord God, cease, I pray!Oh, that Jacob may stand,For he is small!”