Daily Bread

⁶ “I gave you empty stomachs in every city
    and lack of bread in every town,
    yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord.^(R)

⁷ “I also withheld^(S) rain from you
    when the harvest was still three months away.
I sent rain on one town,
    but withheld it from another.^(T)
One field had rain;
    another had none and dried up.
⁸ People staggered from town to town for water^(U)
    but did not get enough^(V) to drink,
    yet you have not returned^(W) to me,”
declares the Lord.^(X)

⁹ “Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,
    destroying them with blight and mildew.^(Y)
Locusts^(Z) devoured your fig and olive trees,^(AA)
    yet you have not returned^(AB) to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹⁰ “I sent plagues^(AC) among you
    as I did to Egypt.^(AD)
I killed your young men^(AE) with the sword,
    along with your captured horses.
I filled your nostrils with the stench^(AF) of your camps,
    yet you have not returned to me,”^(AG)
declares the Lord.^(AH)

¹¹ “I overthrew some of you
    as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.^(AI)
You were like a burning stick^(AJ) snatched from the fire,
    yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord.^(AK)

¹² “Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel,
    and because I will do this to you, Israel,
    prepare to meet your God.”

¹³ He who forms the mountains,^(AL)
    who creates the wind,^(AM)
    and who reveals his thoughts^(AN) to mankind,
who turns dawn to darkness,
    and treads on the heights of the earth^(AO)—
    the Lord God Almighty is his name.^(AP)