3 The land will be utterly emptied, and totally plundered. For Adonai has spoken this word.
4 The land faints and fades away, The world wilts and fades away, The exalted people of the earth wilt.
5 The land is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed Torah, violated statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore a curse will devour the land. Those dwelling there are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the land will be burned up, so the people remaining are few.
7 The new wine fails, the vine wilts, all the merry-hearted sigh.
8 The glee of tambourines stops, the noise of revelers ends, the joy of the harp ceases.
9 They no longer drink wine with song. Liquor is bitter to those drinking it.