27. The king sent for Moses and Aaron and told them, “This time I have sinned. The Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.
28. Pray to the Lord. We have had enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not have to stay here any longer.”
29. Moses told the king, “When I leave the city, I will raise my hands to the Lord in prayer, and the thunder and hail will stop. Then you will know that the earth belongs to the Lord.
30. But I know that you and your officers do not yet fear the Lord God.”
31. The flax was in bloom, and the barley had ripened, so these crops were destroyed.