Osee 4:1

1 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Osee 4:1 In-Context

1 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

2 Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.

3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and shall be diminished with all that dwell in it, with the wild beasts of the field, and the reptiles of the earth, and with the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea shall fail:

4 that neither any one may plead, nor any one reprove ; but my people are as a priest spoken against.

5 Therefore they shall fall by day, and the prophet with thee shall fall: I have compared thy mother unto night.