Hosea 10:3-5

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³ For now they will say:
    “We have no king,
for we do not fear the Lord,
    and a king—what could he do for us?”
⁴ They utter mere words;
    with empty oaths they make covenants;
so litigation springs up like poisonous weeds
    in the furrows of the field.^(A)
5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
    for the calf^[a] of Beth-aven.
Its people shall mourn for it,
    and its idolatrous priests shall wail^[b] over it,
    over its glory that has departed from it.^(B)