Hosea 10:3 KJV

For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us?
Hosea 10:3, King James Version

In context

2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

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

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