1You Israeli people, listen to this message from Yahweh!
2Everywhere in this land they curse others, they murder others, they steal, and they commit adultery.
3It is because of their doing those things that there is no rain [MTY], the land has become dry,
4But no one should accuse someone else
5So I will punish [MTY] you priests, night and day,
6It is because my people do not know about me that they will be destroyed.
7As there are more and more priests,
8The priests get food from the offerings that the people bring in order to be forgiven for having sinned,
9The priests are as sinful as the other people,
10The priests will eat, but they will still be hungry;
11and they are devoting themselves to sleeping with prostitutes,
12“You my people request wooden idols
13you have abandoned me your God, and you are chasing after other gods on the tops of hills and mountains;
14But it is not only your daughters
15You Israeli people have abandoned me
16You people of Israel are as stubborn as [SIM] a young cow.
17The people of Israel have chosen to worship idols [MET],
18When their rulers finish drinking their wine,
19But they will disappear