ESV Study Bible | English Standard Version

 6 “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and t lack of bread in all your places,
u yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

 7 “I also v withheld the rain from you
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
w I would send rain on one city,
and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
 8 so two or three cities x would wander to another city
to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
u yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

 9 y “I struck you with blight and mildew;
your many gardens and your vineyards,
your fig trees and your olive trees z the locust devoured;
u yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

10 “I sent among you a pestilence a after the manner of Egypt;
I killed your young men with the sword,
and b carried away your horses, [1]
and c I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
u yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

11 “I overthrew some of you,
d as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were e as a brand [2] plucked out of the burning;
u yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

12 “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
because I will do this to you,
prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

13 For behold, f he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,
and g declares to man what is his thought,
h who makes the morning darkness,
and i treads on the heights of the earth—
j the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!