“You are destroyed, Israel,
    because you are against me,(A) against your helper.(B)
10 Where is your king,(C) that he may save you?
    Where are your rulers in all your towns,
of whom you said,
    ‘Give me a king and princes’?(D)
11 So in my anger I gave you a king,(E)
    and in my wrath I took him away.(F)

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“You are about to be destroyed, O Israel—
    yes, by me, your only helper.
10 Now where is[a] your king?
    Let him save you!
Where are all the leaders of the land,
    the king and the officials you demanded of me?
11 In my anger I gave you kings,
    and in my fury I took them away.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:10 As in Greek and Syriac versions and Latin Vulgate; Hebrew reads I will be.