Verse 3
"They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies."
The king and the princes, who should have been the leaders of the nation were, instead, wholehearted participants in the evil ways of the people. Corruption had reached the highest level of their society, and the total and complete ruin of the nation had occurred. This is certainly th meaning of the passage, despite the several ways that the scholars render this verse. As Mauchline suggested:
"The text here is very uncertain, and every scholar has his own way of emending it; but it is remarkable that when we analyze the proposed emendations, the differences among them are slight, so that there is substantial agreement as to the general meaning of the verse."[2]
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