¹⁶ Woe to the land whose king was a servant^[a](A)
    and whose princes feast in the morning.

¹² Youths^(A) oppress my people,
    women rule over them.
My people, your guides lead you astray;^(B)
    they turn you from the path.

¹¹ Woe^(A) to those who rise early in the morning
    to run after their drinks,
who stay up late at night
    till they are inflamed with wine.^(B)
12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
    pipes^(C) and timbrels^(D) and wine,
but they have no regard^(E) for the deeds of the Lord,
    no respect for the work of his hands.^(F)

⁴ “I will make mere youths their officials;
    children will rule over them.”^(A)

⁵ People will oppress each other—
    man against man, neighbor against neighbor.^(B)
The young will rise up against the old,
    the nobody against the honored.

20 Wine^(A) is a mocker^(B) and beer a brawler;
    whoever is led astray^(C) by them is not wise.^(D)

² A king’s wrath strikes terror like the roar of a lion;^(E)
    those who anger him forfeit their lives.^(F)

“‘Administer justice^(A) every morning;
    rescue from the hand of the oppressor^(B)
    the one who has been robbed,
or my wrath will break out and burn like fire^(C)
    because of the evil^(D) you have done—
    burn with no one to quench^(E) it.

⁵ On the day of the festival of our king
    the princes become inflamed with wine,^(A)
    and he joins hands with the mockers.^(B)
6 Their hearts are like an oven;^(C)
    they approach him with intrigue.
Their passion smolders all night;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
⁷ All of them are hot as an oven;
    they devour their rulers.
All their kings fall,^(D)
    and none of them calls^(E) on me.

⁷ And these also stagger^(A) from wine^(B)
    and reel^(C) from beer:
Priests^(D) and prophets^(E) stagger from beer
    and are befuddled with wine;
they reel from beer,
    they stagger when seeing visions,^(F)
    they stumble when rendering decisions.
⁸ All the tables are covered with vomit^(G)
    and there is not a spot without filth.