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

⁶ So the Lord relented.^(D)

“This will not happen either,” the Sovereign Lord said.^(E)