Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
her rulers with shame do love, give ye; or "her shields" a; those that should have been the protectors of Israel, compared before to a heifer; and preserved them not only from their external enemies, but from all innovations in religion; and which we rightly enough render "rulers", civil and ecclesiastic, kings, princes, and priests; see