8. People from two or three townswould go to a townthat still had water,but it wasn't enough.Even then you rejected me.I, the Lord, have spoken!
9. I dried up your grain fields;your gardens and vineyardsturned brown.Locusts ate your fig treesand olive orchards,but even then you rejected me.I, the Lord, have spoken!
10. I did terrible things to you,just as I did to Egypt—I killed your young men in war;I let your horses be stolen,and I made your camp stinkwith dead bodies.Even then you rejected me.I, the Lord, have spoken!
11. I destroyed many of you,just as I did the citiesof Sodom and Gomorrah.You were a burning stickI rescued from the fire.Even then you rejected me.I, the Lord, have spoken!