Hosea 13:11
Good News Translation
In my anger I have given you kings, and in my fury I have taken them away.

New Revised Standard Version
I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.

Contemporary English Version
In my anger, I gave you a king; in my fury, I took him away.

New American Bible
I give you a king in my anger, and I take him away in my wrath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in my indignation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in my indignation.

Hosea 10:3 For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us?

1 Samuel 8:7-9 And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them. . . .

1 Samuel 10:19 But you this day have rejected your God, who only hath saved you out of all your evils and your tribulations: and you have said: Nay: but set a king over us. Now therefore stand before the Lord by your tribes, and by your families.

1 Samuel 12:13 Now, therefore, your king is here, whom you have chosen and desired: Behold the Lord hath given you a king.

1 Samuel 15:22,23 And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat or rams. . . .

1 Samuel 16:1 And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and come, that I may send thee to Isai, the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

1 Samuel 31:1-7 And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelboe. . . .

1 Kings 12:15,16,26-32 And the king condescended not to the people: for the Lord was turned away from him, to make good his word, which he had spoken in the hand of Ahias, the Silonite, to Jeroboam, the son of Nabat. . . .

1 Kings 14:7-16 Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: For as much as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel; . . .

2 Kings 17:1-4 In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda, Osee the son of Ela reigned in Samaria, over Israel, nine years. . . .

Proverbs 28:2 For the sins of the land many are the princes thereof: and for the wisdom of a man, and the knowledge of those things that are said, the life of the prince shall be prolonged.

Context
God's Mercy
10Where is thy king? now especially let him save thee in all thy cities: and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: Give me kings and princes. 11I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in my indignation.12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is hidden.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 8:7
And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.

1 Samuel 10:17
And Samuel called together the people to the Lord in Maspha:

1 Samuel 12:13
Now, therefore, your king is here, whom you have chosen and desired: Behold the Lord hath given you a king.

1 Samuel 15:26
And Samuel said to Saul: I will not return with thee, because thou hath rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.

1 Kings 14:7
Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: For as much as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel;

Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without theraphim.

Hosea 8:4
They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I knew not: of their silver and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they might perish.

Hosea 10:7
Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face of the water.

Hosea 13:10
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