1 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the¹ 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!
^aOh,¹ that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!” ‡

5 Then I said:
“O Lord God, cease, I pray!
^aOh, that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!” ‡

6 So the Lord relented concerning this.
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.