When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,

“O Lord God, please forgive!
    (A)How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”
(B)The Lord relented concerning this:
    “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

(C)This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling (D)for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. Then I said,

“O Lord God, please cease!
    (E)How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”
(F)The Lord relented concerning this:
    “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

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