3 “The people entertain the king with their wickedness,and the princes laugh at their lies.
4 They are all adulterers,always aflame with lust.They are like an oven that is kept hotwhile the baker is kneading the dough.
5 On royal holidays, the princes get drunk with wine,carousing with those who mock them.
6 Their hearts are like an ovenblazing with intrigue.Their plot smolders through the night,and in the morning it breaks out like a raging fire.
7 Burning like an oven,they consume their leaders.They kill their kings one after another,and no one cries to me for help.
8 “The people of Israel mingle with godless foreigners,making themselves as worthless as a half-baked cake!
9 Worshiping foreign gods has sapped their strength,but they don’t even know it.Their hair is gray,but they don’t realize they’re old and weak.