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Locusts, Fire, and a Plumb-Line

7This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings). ²When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
‘O Lord God, forgive, I beg you!
   How can Jacob stand?
   He is so 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 shower of fire,^* and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. ⁵Then I said,
‘O Lord God, cease, I beg you!
   How can Jacob stand?
   He is so small!’
⁶ The Lord relented concerning this;
   ‘This also shall not be,’ said the Lord God.