Bible verse
Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?
Hosea 13:10 · BSB
The verses around it, from Hosea 13.
6 When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
7 So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
8 Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.
9 You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper.
10 Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?
11 So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.
12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
13 Labor pains come upon him, but he is an unwise son. When the time arrives, he fails to present himself at the opening of the womb.
14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
KJV
I will be thy king: where [is any other] that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
ASV
Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
ERV
Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
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