⁷ And I also withheld the rain from you
    when there were still three months to the harvest;
I would send rain on one city
    and send no rain on another city;
one field would be rained upon,
    and the field on which it did not rain withered;
⁸ so two or three towns wandered to one town
    to drink water and were not satisfied;
yet you did not return to me,
            says the Lord.^(B)

⁹ I struck you with blight and mildew;
    I laid waste^[a] your gardens and your vineyards;
    the locust devoured your fig trees and your olive trees;
yet you did not return to me,
            says the Lord.^(C)

¹⁰ I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt;
    I killed your young men with the sword;
I carried away your horses;^[b]
    and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
yet you did not return to me,
            says the Lord.^(D)

¹¹ I overthrew some of you
    as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were like a brand snatched from the fire;
yet you did not return to me,
            says the Lord.^(E)

¹² Is it nothing to you,^[a] all you who pass by?
    Look and see
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
    which was brought upon me,
which the Lord inflicted
    on the day of his fierce anger.^(A)

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
    but the Lord rescues them from them all.^(A)