8 People weak from thirst went from town to town for water.But they could not get enough water to drink.But you still did not come back to me,” says the Lord.
9 “I made your crops die from disease and mildew.I destroyed your gardens and your vineyards.Locusts ate your fig trees and olive trees.But you still did not come back to me,” says the Lord.
10 “I sent disasters against you,as I did to Egypt.I killed your young men with swords.I also killed your horses.I made you smell the stink from all the dead bodies.But you still did not come back to me,” says the Lord.
11 “I destroyed some of youas I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.You were like a burning stick pulled from a fire.But you still have not come back to me,” says the Lord.
12 “So this is what I will do to you, Israel.And because I will do this to you,get ready to meet your God, Israel.”
13 He is the one who makes the mountains.He creates the wind.He makes his thoughts known to man.He changes the dawn into darkness.He walks over the mountains of the earth.His name is the Lord God of heaven’s armies.