O Lord, for the sake of your reputation, revive me! Because of your justice, rescue me from trouble!

At the end of every three years you must bring all the tithe of your produce, in that very year, and you must store it up in your villages.

“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

For just as the ground produces its crops and a garden yields its produce, so the sovereign Lord will cause deliverance to grow, and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.

While they are watching, raise your baggage onto your shoulder and carry it out in the dark. You must cover your face so that you cannot see the ground because I have made you an object lesson to the house of Israel.”

Because of this, the Lord said, “You must repent of such words and thoughts! If you do, I will restore you to the privilege of serving me. If you say what is worthwhile instead of what is worthless, I will again allow you to be my spokesman. They must become as you have been. You must not become like them.

Moreover, I have called for a drought that will affect the fields, the hill country, the grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, and everything that grows from the ground; it also will harm people, animals, and everything they produce.’”