1You people of Israel, do not shout joyfully during your festivals like people of other nations do!
2But soon there will not be enough grain [MTY, PRS] and wine [MTY, PRS] for you.
3And you people will not remain in the land that I, Yahweh, gave to your ancestors.
4You Israelis will not be able to give wine offerings to him,
5At that time you will not [RHQ] be able to celebrate the feasts and sacred festivals.
6And even if you escape and are not killed by the Assyrians,
7It is now the time for Yahweh to punish you,
8My God appointed me and the other prophets
9The sins that the Israeli people have committed are as awful as what the men of Gibeah did long ago;
10Yahweh says, “When I first started to do things to help Israel,
11The things that cause Israel to be great will disappear
12Even if their children are born and start to grow up,
13I have seen Israel become beautiful and prosperous like Tyre city was before it was destroyed,
14Yahweh, I do not know [RHQ] what I should ask for my people.
15Yahweh says, “Because of all the wicked things that my people did at Gilgal,
16Israel is like [MET] a grapevine that is dried up;
17The people of Israel have not obeyed me, their God,