5“Offer a thank offering also from that which is leavened,
         And proclaim freewill offerings, make them known.
         For so you love to do, you sons of Israel,”
         Declares the Lord GOD.

6“But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your cities
         And lack of bread in all your places,
         Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD.

7“Furthermore, I withheld the rain from you
         While there were still three months until harvest.
         Then I would send rain on one city
         And on another city I would not send rain;
         One part would be rained on,
         While the part not rained on would dry up.

8“So two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink water,
         But would not be satisfied;
         Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD.

9“I smote you with scorching wind and mildew;
         And the caterpillar was devouring
         Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees;
         Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD.

10“I sent a plague among you after the manner of Egypt;
         I slew your young men by the sword along with your captured horses,
         And I made the stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils;
         Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD.

11“I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
         And you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze;
         Yet you have not returned 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.”

13For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind
         And declares to man what are His thoughts,
         He who makes dawn into darkness
         And treads on the high places of the earth,
         The LORD God of hosts is His name.

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