9. “I sent a scorching wind to dry up your crops. The locusts ate up all your gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me.
10. “I sent a plague on you like the one I sent on Egypt. I killed your young men in battle and took your horses away. I filled your nostrils with the stink of dead bodies in your camps. Still you did not come back to me.
11. “I destroyed some of you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Those of you who survived were like a burning stick saved from a fire. Still you did not come back to me,” says the Lord.
12. “So then, people of Israel, I am going to punish you. And because I am going to do this, get ready to face my judgement!”
13. God is the one who made the mountainsand created the winds.He makes his thoughts known to people;he changes day into night.He walks on the heights of the earth.This is his name: the Lord God Almighty!