6 “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,

and lack of bread in all your places,

yet you did not return to me,”

says the Lord.

7 “And I also withheld the rain from you

when there were yet three months to the harvest;

I would send rain upon one city,

and send no rain upon another city;

one field would be rained upon,

and the field on which it did not rain withered;

8 so two or three cities wandered to one city

to drink water, and were not satisfied;

yet you did not return to me,”

says the Lord.

9 “I smote you with blight and mildew;

I laid wastei

your gardens and your vineyards; your fig

trees and your olive trees the locust devoured;

yet you did not return to me,”

says the Lord.

10 “I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt;

I slew your young men with the sword;

I carried away your horses;j

and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;

yet you did not return to me,”

says the Lord.

11 “I overthrew some of you,

as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning;

yet you did not return to me,”

says the Lord.

12 “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;

because I will do this to you,

prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

13 For lo, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind,

and declares to man what is his thought;

who makes the morning darkness,

and treads on the heights of the earth—

the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!