Hosea 10:3-5

Common English Bible

³ For now they will say:
        “We have no king,
    because we don’t love the Lord.
        What then could a king do for us?”
⁴ They have spoken empty words,
        swearing falsely when making covenants;
    so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
        in the furrows of the field.
⁵ The inhabitants of Samaria shake
        because of the calf of Beth-aven.
    Its people will mourn over it,
        just as its idolatrous priests who rejoiced over its glory that is now gone.