18 When their drinking is over,
they turn to promiscuity.
Israel’s leaders[a] fervently love disgrace.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 4:18 Lit Her shields; Ps 47:9; 89:18
  2. 4:18 Hb obscure

18 Even when their drinks are gone,
    they continue their prostitution;
    their rulers dearly love shameful ways.

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All of them commit adultery;(A)
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

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They are all adulterers,(A)
    burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
    from the kneading of the dough till it rises.

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