For now they will say:
    (A)“We have no king,
for we do not fear the Lord;
    and a king—what could he do for us?”
They utter (B)mere words;
    with empty[a] oaths they make covenants;
so (C)judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
    (D)in the furrows of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:4 Or vain (see Exodus 20:7)

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