3 You will each go straight outthrough breaches in the wall,and you will be cast out towards Harmon,’declares the Lord.
4 ‘Go to Bethel and sin;go to Gilgal and sin yet more.Bring your sacrifices every morning,your tithes every three years.
5 Burn leavened bread as a thank-offeringand brag about your freewill offerings –boast about them, you Israelites,for this is what you love to do,’declares the Sovereign Lord.
6 ‘I gave you empty stomachs in every cityand lack of bread in every town,yet you have not returned to me,’declares the Lord.
7 ‘I also withheld rain from youwhen the harvest was still three months away.I sent rain on one town,but withheld it from another.One field had rain;another had none and dried up.
8 People staggered from town to town for waterbut did not get enough to drink,yet you have not returned to me,’declares the Lord.
9 ‘Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,destroying them with blight and mildew.Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees,yet you have not returned to me,’declares the Lord.