ISRAEL’S CORRUPTION

3 They please the king with their evil,s

the princes with their lies.t

4 All of them commit adultery;u

they are like an oven heated by a baker

who stops stirring the fire

from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

5 On the day of our king,

the princes are sick with the heat of winev—

there is a conspiracy with traitors.C

6 For they—their hearts like an oven—

draw him into their oven.

Their anger smolders all night;

in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

7 All of them are as hot as an oven,w

and they consume their rulers.x

All their kings fall;

not one of them calls on me.D