First Vision: Locusts

7 The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts^(A) at the time the spring crop first began to sprout – after the cutting of the king’s hay. ² When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land,^(B) I said, ‘Lord God, please forgive!^(C) How will Jacob survive, since he is so small? ’^(D)

³ The Lord relented concerning this.^(E) ‘It will not happen,’ he said.