5 Burn bread as a thank offering.Brag and boast about your freewill offerings.This is what you people of Israel love to do.The Almighty Lord declares this.
6 I left you with nothing to eat in any of your cities.I left you with no food in your entire land.And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord.
7 I stopped the rain from fallingthree months before the harvest.I sent rain on one city and not on another.One field had rain.Another field had none and dried up.
8 So people from two or three cities staggeredas they walked to another city in order to get a drink of water.But they couldn’t get enough.And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord.
9 I struck your ⌊crops⌋ with blight and mildew.Locusts repeatedly devoured your gardens, vineyards,fig trees, and olive trees.And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord.
10 I sent plagues on you as I did to Egypt.With swords I killed your best young men along with your captured horses.I made the stench from your camps fill your noses.And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord.
11 I destroyed some of you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.You were like a burning log snatched from a fire.And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord.