Hosea 10:3 Then they will say, "We have no king because we did not revere the LORD. But even if we had a king, what could he do for us?"

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New International Version
Then they will say, "We have no king because we did not revere the LORD. But even if we had a king, what could he do for us?"

English Standard Version
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?”

New American Standard Bible
Surely now they will say, "We have no king, For we do not revere the LORD. As for the king, what can he do for us?"

King James Bible
For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In fact, they are now saying," We have no king! For we do not fear the LORD. What can a king do for us?"

International Standard Version
From now on they will say, 'We have no king, because we did not fear the LORD— and what would a king do for us?'

American Standard Version
Surely now shall they say, We have no king; for we fear not Jehovah; and the king, what can he do for us?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us?

Darby Bible Translation
For now they will say, We have no king, for we feared not Jehovah; and a king, what can he do for us?

Young's Literal Translation
For now they say: We have no king, Because we have not feared Jehovah, And the king -- what doth he for us?

Cross References

1 Samuel 12:25
But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king.

Psalm 12:4
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Isaiah 5:19
That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!

Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

10:1-8 A vine is only valuable for its fruit; but Israel now brought no fruit to perfection. Their hearts were divided. God is the Sovereign of the heart; he will have all, or none. Were the stream of the heart wholly after God, it would run strongly, and bear down all before it. Their pretences to covenant with God were false. Even the proceeding of justice was as poisonous hemlock. Alas, how empty a vine is the visible church even at this day! But all earthly prosperity is but a collection of bubbles, soon destroyed like foam upon the water. Sinners will in vain seek shelter from that Judge, whom they now despise as a Saviour.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. now, &c.—Soon they, deprived of their king, shall be reduced to say, We have no king (Ho 10:7, 15), for Jehovah deprived us of him, because of our not fearing God. What then (seeing God is against us) should a king be able to do for us, if we had one? As they rejected the heavenly King, they were deprived of their earthly king.