Hosea 10:3-5

Young's Literal Translation

³ For now they say: We have no king, Because we have not feared Jehovah, And the king -- what doth he for us?

⁴ They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.

⁵ For the calves of Beth-Aven fear do inhabitants of Samaria, Surely mourned on account of it hath its people, And its priests on account of it leap about, Because of its honour, for it hath removed from it,