“You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and the LORD will not answer you in that day.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Samuel 8 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.