5. Bring offerings to show mehow thankful you are.Gladly bring more offeringsthan I have demanded.You really love to do this.I, the Lord God, have spoken!
6. I, the Lord, took away the foodfrom every town and village,but still you rejected me.
7. Three months before harvest,I kept back the rain.Sometimes I would let it fallon one town or fieldbut not on another,and pastures dried up.
8. People from two or three townswould go to a townthat still had water,but it wasn't enough.Even then you rejected me.I, the Lord, have spoken!
9. I dried up your grain fields;your gardens and vineyardsturned brown.Locusts ate your fig treesand olive orchards,but even then you rejected me.I, the Lord, have spoken!
10. I did terrible things to you,just as I did to Egypt—I killed your young men in war;I let your horses be stolen,and I made your camp stinkwith dead bodies.Even then you rejected me.I, the Lord, have spoken!
11. I destroyed many of you,just as I did the citiesof Sodom and Gomorrah.You were a burning stickI rescued from the fire.Even then you rejected me.I, the Lord, have spoken!
12. Now, Israel, I myselfwill deal with you.Get ready to face your God!
13. I created the mountainsand the wind.I let humans knowwhat I am thinking.I bring darkness at dawnand step over hills.I am the Lord God All-Powerful!