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Hosea 10:4

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“Because now they will say, 'There is no king for us, for we did not fear the Lord, and what will the king do to us?' Speaking words of useless vision, and you will strike a covenant, and judgment will germinate like bitterness over the furrows of the field. "LXX: "Therefore now they will say, there is no king for us,…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Hosea 10:3-4

Source: Septuagint

Original

4and what should a king do for us, speaking false professions as his words? he will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.

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2They have divided their hearts; now shall they be utterly destroyed: he shall dig down their altars, their pillars shall mourn.

3Because now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord:

— Hosea 10:4 —

5The inhabitants of Samaria shall dwell near the calf of the house of Aven; for the people of it mourned for it: and as they provoked him, they shall rejoice at his glory, because he has departed from them.

6And having bound it for the Assyrians, they carried it away as presents to King Jarim: Ephraim shall receive a gift, and Israel shall be ashamed of his counsel.

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