For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a place clean, establishing that the drunkenness of leadership pervades all levels of communal life, that tables—places of gathering and decision-making—are fouled by the results of drunkenness. The filthy vomit imagery is deliberately repulsive, emphasizing the degradation and corruption. The absence of clean places suggests the totality of the contamination, that there is nowhere to turn for clean and reliable authority. The focus on tables suggests both the literal tables of feasting and metaphorically the places where important matters are decided. This verse emphasizes the comprehensiveness of the corruption and the impossibility of maintaining standards of propriety and judgment.

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