6 “I was the one who brought famine to all your cities, yet you did not come back to me.
7 I held back the rain when your crops needed it most. I sent rain on one city, but not on another. Rain fell on one field, but another field dried up.
8 Weak with thirst, the people of several cities went to a city where they hoped to find water, but there was not enough to drink. Still you did not come back to me.
9 “I sent a scorching wind to dry up your crops. The locusts ate up all your gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me.
10 “I sent a plague on you like the one I sent on Egypt. I killed your young men in battle and took your horses away. I filled your nostrils with the stink of dead bodies in your camps. Still you did not come back to me.
11 “I destroyed some of you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Those of you who survived were like a burning stick saved from a fire. Still you did not come back to me,” says the Lord.
12 “So then, people of Israel, I am going to punish you. And because I am going to do this, get ready to face my judgement!”