You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

But when the chief priests and those in authority made statements against him, he gave no answer.

And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.

The kings of the earth were lifted up, the rulers came together, against the Lord, and against his Christ:

I was

But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.

And they put a purple robe on him, and twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on him;

Drunkards

Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.

General references

There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.