Hosea 10:3-5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ For now they will say:
    “We have no king,
for we fear not the Lord,
    and a king, what could he do for us?”
⁴ They utter mere words;
    with empty oaths they make covenants;
so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
    in the furrows of the field.
⁵ The inhabitants of Samar′ia tremble
    for the calf^[a] of Beth-a′ven.
Its people shall mourn for it,
    and its idolatrous priests shall wail^[b] over it,
    over its glory which has departed from it.