“In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.”
The reference to the day of our king and the drinking and carousing suggests a specific occasion, perhaps a royal festival, where Israel's leaders engage in revelry oblivious to the coming judgment. The comparison suggests that the leaders' drunken revelry parallels their spiritual drunkenness and blindness to the consequences of their actions. This verse criticizes the leadership's failure to recognize crisis or prepare for coming judgment, their continued indulgence despite the nearness of catastrophe.
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