Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord
6 “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and
1lack of bread in all your places,
2yet you did not return to me, ”declares the Lord.
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“I also
3withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest;
4I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
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so two or three cities
5would wander to another city to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
6yet you did not return to me, ”declares the Lord.
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7“I struck you with blight and mildew; your many gardens and your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees
8the locust devoured;
9yet you did not return to me, ”declares the Lord.
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“I sent among you a pestilence
10after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and
11carried away your horses, and
12I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
13yet you did not return to me, ”declares the Lord.
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“I overthrew some of you,
14as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were
15as a brand plucked out of the burning;
16yet you did not return to me, ”declares the Lord.