Hosea 10:3

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?

Then they will say, “We have no king because we did not revere the Lord. But even if we had a king, what could 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?