Pray to the Lord, for we have had enough thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don't have to stay any longer. Pharaoh asks for prayer and makes his fullest concession yet: I will let you go; you don't have to stay any longer. The concession sounds complete. But Moses knows what follows relief — the fourth and second plagues established the pattern. Pharaoh is not confessing; he is negotiating. The phrase enough thunder and hail locates the confession in physical suffering rather than moral understanding. He is not saying I have been wrong to refuse; he is saying I cannot bear any more of this. The distinction between repentance driven by consequence and repentance driven by conviction is drawn sharply here. 2 Corinthians 7:10 says godly sorrow produces repentance that leads to salvation, but worldly sorrow produces death. Pharaoh's sorrow is entirely worldly.

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