² The Lord God has taken a sacred oath:^[a]

“The day is coming when they^[b] will take you away on fishhooks,
    every last one of you on fishhooks.
³ Each of you will go out through the breaches of the walls^[c]
    straight to Mt. Hermon,”^[d]
        declares the Lord.

⁷ “I therefore have withheld the rain from you
    three months before the harvest,
causing rain to come upon one city,
    but not upon another,
and upon one field
    but not upon another,
        so that it would wither.
⁸ So the people of^[i] two or three cities staggered away to another^[j] city
    in order to obtain drinking water,
but you have not returned to me,”
    declares the Lord.

⁹ “I afflicted you with blight and fungus;
    and the locust swarm devoured the harvest
        of your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees,
    but you have not returned to me,”
        declares the Lord.

¹⁰ “I sent plagues among you as I did with Egypt.
    I killed your choicest young men with the sword.
I took your horses away from you.
    I filled your noses with the stench of your encampments,
but you have not returned to me,”
    declares the Lord.

¹¹ “I overthrew your cities,^[k]
    as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
You’ve become like a burning ember, snatched from the fire,
    but you have not returned to me,”
        declares the Lord.

¹² “Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel.
    Because I am about to do this,
        prepare to be summoned to your God, Israel!”

¹³ Look! The one who crafts mountains,
    who creates the wind,
who reveals what he is thinking to mankind,
    who darkens the morning light,
who tramples down the high places of the land—
    the Lord, the God of the Heavenly Armies is his name.