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Their heart is false;
    now they must bear their guilt.
The Lord[a] will break down their altars,
    and destroy their pillars.

For now they will say:
    ‘We have no king,
for we do not fear the Lord,
    and a king—what could he do for us?’
They utter mere words;
    with empty oaths they make covenants;
so litigation springs up like poisonous weeds
    in the furrows of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:2 Heb he

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