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Three months before harvest,
    I kept back the rain.
Sometimes I would let it fall
    on one town or field
but not on another,
    and pastures dried up.
People from two or three towns
    would go to a town
that still had water,
    but it wasn't enough.
Even then you rejected me.
    I, the Lord, have spoken!

I dried up your grain fields;
your gardens and vineyards
    turned brown.
Locusts[a] ate your fig trees
    and olive orchards,
but even then you rejected me.
    I, the Lord, have spoken!

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Footnotes

  1. 4.9 Locusts: A type of grasshopper that comes in swarms and causes great damage to plant life.

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