The word of LORD that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

For the sons of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without ruler, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim.

Afterward the sons of Israel shall return and seek LORD their God and David their king, and shall come with fear to LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.

Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king, for to you pertains the judgment. For ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb. But he is not able to heal you, nor will he cure you of your wound.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the rulers with their lies.

On the day of our king the rulers made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He stretched out his hand with scoffers.

Yea, though they hire among the nations, I will now gather them, and they shall begin to be diminished because of the burden of the king of rulers.

Surely now they shall say, We have no king, for we fear not LORD. And the king, what can he do for us?

It shall also be carried to Assyria for a present to king Jareb. Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

[As for] Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.

So shall Bethel do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off.

They shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be their king, because they refused to return [to me].

Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities, and thy judges, of whom thou said, Give me a king and rulers?

I have given thee a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.