Hosea 10:1-3

Contemporary English Version

10 You were a healthy vine
    covered with grapes.
But the more grapes you grew,
    the more altars you built;
the better off you became,
the better shrines you set up
    for pagan gods.
² You are deceitful and disloyal.
So you will pay
    for your sins,
because the Lord will destroy
    your altars and images.

³ “We don't have a king,”
    you will say.
“We don't fear the Lord.
    And what good are kings?”