Jan 17, 2018
6 “I gave you
empty stomachs in every city
and lack of bread in every town,
yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the
Lord.
7 “I also withheld
rain from you
when 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
water
but 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.
10 “I sent
plagues among you
as I did to Egypt.
I killed your young men with the
sword,
along with your captured horses.
I filled your nostrils with the stench
of your camps,
yet you have not returned to
me,”
declares the
Lord.
11 “I overthrew
some of you
as I overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah.
You were like a burning stick snatched
from the fire,
yet you have not returned to
me,”
declares the
Lord.
12 “Therefore
this is what I will do to you, Israel,
and because I will do this to you,
Israel,
prepare to meet your God.”
13 He who forms
the mountains,
who creates the wind,
and who reveals his thoughts to
mankind,
who turns dawn to darkness,
and treads on the heights of the
earth—
the Lord God
Almighty is his name.