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!