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Surely now they will say, “We have no king; for we don’t fear Yahweh;
    and the king, what can he do for us?”
They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants.
    Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

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Surely now shall they say, We have no king; for we fear not Jehovah; and the king, what can he do for us?

They speak vain words, [a]swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment [b]springeth up as [c]hemlock in the furrows of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:4 Or, they swear falsely, they make covenants
  2. Hosea 10:4 Or, shall spring up
  3. Hosea 10:4 Hebrew rosh. See Dt. 29:18.