² When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,

¹³ And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, ^(A)that ^(B)Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. ^(C)Then I fell down on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, ^(D)“Ah, Lord God! ^(E)Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”

^4 (A)It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for ^(B)the remnant that is left.’”

⁸ And while they were striking, and I was left alone, ^(A)I fell upon my face, and cried, ^(B)“Ah, Lord God! ^(C)Will you destroy all the remnant of Israel ^(D)in the outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”

² and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let ^(A)our plea for mercy come before you, and ^(B)pray to the Lord your God for us, for all ^(C)this remnant—^(D)because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us—

¹⁵ They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and ^(A)they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

⁴ They were told ^(A)not to harm ^(B)the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have ^(C)the seal of God on their foreheads.