³ So the Lord relented.^(A)

“This will not happen,” the Lord said.^(B)

⁴ This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire;^(C) it dried up the great deep and devoured^(D) the land. ⁵ Then I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!^(E)”