⁵ Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought^(A) to your ways. ⁶ You have planted much, but harvested little.^(B) You eat, but never have enough.^(C) You drink, but never have your fill.^(D) You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages,^(E) only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

¹⁰ Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld^(A) their dew^(B) and the earth its crops.^{(C) 11} I called for a drought^(D) on the fields and the mountains,^(E) on the grain, the new wine,^(F) the olive oil^(G) and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.^(H)”