In fact, they are now saying,
“We have no king!
For we do not fear the Lord.(A)
What can a king do for us?”
They speak mere words,
taking false oaths while making covenants.(B)
So lawsuits break out
like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.(C)

The residents of Samaria(D) will have anxiety
over the calf(E) of Beth-aven.(F)
Indeed, its idolatrous priests rejoiced over it;
the people will mourn over it,
over its glory.(G)
It will certainly go into exile.

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