Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

^17 (A)I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, ^(B)yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.

¹⁰ The fifth angel poured out his bowl on ^(A)the throne of the beast, and ^(B)its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish ¹¹ and cursed ^(C)the God of heaven for their pain and ^(D)sores. ^(E)They did not repent of their deeds.

²¹ I gave her time to repent, but ^(A)she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

^26 (A)When I break your supply^[a] of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and ^(B)you shall eat and not be satisfied.

²⁰ The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^(A)did not repent of ^(B)the works of their hands nor give up worshiping ^(C)demons ^(D)and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, ²¹ nor did they repent of their murders or their ^(E)sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

³ Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: ^(A)Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and ^(B)I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. ^4 (C)Do not be like your fathers, ^(D)to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, ^(E)Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But ^(F)they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. ⁵ Your fathers, where are they? And ^(G)the prophets, do they live forever? ^6 (H)But my words and my statutes, which I commanded ^(I)my servants the prophets, did they not ^(J)overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, ^(K)‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for ^(L)our ways and ^(M)deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”