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Certainly 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?"

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

They speak mere words, With worthless oaths they make covenants; And judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.