Hosea 10:3-5

New King James Version

³ For now they say,
“We have no king,
Because we did not fear the Lord.
And as for a king, what would he do for us?”
⁴ They have spoken words,
Swearing falsely in making a covenant.
Thus judgment springs up ^(A)like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

⁵ The inhabitants of Samaria fear
Because of the ^(B)calf^[a] of Beth Aven.
For its people mourn for it,
And ^[b]its priests shriek for it—
Because its ^(C)glory has departed from it.