⁵ Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

⁴ Turn us, God of our salvation, And cause your indignation toward us to cease.

⁹ Unless Yahweh of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, We would have been as Sodom; We would have been like Gomorrah.

²⁵ For yet a very little while, and the indignation [against you] shall be accomplished, and my anger [shall be directed] to his destruction.

¹⁹ Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

¹⁷ Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, And let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, And don't give your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

² It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

³ Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh.