⁵ Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

⁴ Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.

⁹ If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.

²⁵ For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.

¹⁹ And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.

¹⁷ Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

² And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

³ The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.