³⁰ In vain have I ^(A)struck your children;
    they took no correction;
^(B)your own sword devoured your prophets
    like a ravening lion.

³ O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
^(A)You have struck them down,
    but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
    but they refused to take correction.
^(B)They have made their faces harder than rock;
    they have refused to repent.

⁶ “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
    and ^(A)lack of bread in all your places,
^(B)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
⁷ “I also ^(C)withheld the rain from you
    when there were yet three months to the harvest;
^(D)I 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;
⁸ so two or three cities ^(E)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
^(F)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
^9 (G)“I struck you with blight and mildew;
    your many gardens and your vineyards,
    your fig trees and your olive trees ^(H)the locust devoured;
^(I)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
¹⁰ “I sent among you a pestilence ^(J)after the manner of Egypt;
    I killed your young men with the sword,
and ^(K)carried away your horses,^[a]
    and ^(L)I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
^(M)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
¹¹ “I overthrew some of you,
    ^(N)as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were ^(O)as a brand^[b] plucked out of the burning;
^(P)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
¹² “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
    because I will do this to you,
    prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”