¹⁷ Happy art thou, O land, When thy king `is' a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might, and not for drunkenness.

⁴ Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.

⁵ Lest he drink, and forget the decree, And change the judgment of any of the sons of affliction.

²⁶ and thou hast given the money for any thing which thy soul desireth, for oxen, and for sheep, and for wine, and for strong drink, and for any thing which thy soul asketh, and thou hast eaten there before Jehovah thy God, and thou hast rejoiced, thou and thy house.

² By the transgression of a land many `are' its heads. And by an intelligent man, Who knoweth right -- it is prolonged.

³ A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, `Is' a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.

⁶ He hath set the fool in many high places, And the rich in a low place do sit.

⁷ I have seen servants on horses, And princes walking as servants on the earth.

¹¹ Wo `to' those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!

²¹ And his honourable one hath been of himself, And his ruler from his midst goeth forth, And I have caused him to draw near, And he hath drawn nigh unto Me, For who `is' he who hath pledged his heart To draw nigh unto Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.