3  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?”

7  ⁱSamaria’s king shall perish

like a twig on the face of the waters.

15  Thus it shall be done to you, O ^pBethel,

because of your great evil.

At dawn the king of Israel

shall be utterly cut off.

5  They shall not¹ return to the land of Egypt,

but Assyria shall be their king,

because they have refused to return to me.

10  Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?

Where are all your rulers—

those of whom you said,

^c“Give me a king and princes”?

11  I gave you a king in my anger,

and I took him away in my wrath.