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The king celebrates their evil deeds,
    and princes enjoy their deceptions.
All of them are adulterers with unquenchable lust.
    They are like an oven overheated by a baker,
An oven so hot it doesn’t need to be stoked for several hours
    from the time the dough is kneaded until it finishes rising.

Eternal One: When the king was celebrating[a] and the princes were sick with drunkenness,
        his conscience was dulled and he joined forces with rebels.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:5 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

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