Hosea 4:1

KJV

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

— Hosea 4:1, King James Version
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'Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land' — the covenant-lawsuit (rib) opening of Hosea 4 identifies three foundational relational deficits — emet (faithfulness), hesed (covenant loyalty), and da'at Elohim (knowledge of God) — as the root of Israel's social and moral collapse. The following catalog of consequences (murder, stealing, adultery, bloodshed — verse 2) presents social breakdown as symptomatic of theological failure rather than autonomous moral decline. The pattern — loss of divine knowledge producing social disintegration — is echoed in Romans 1:28's 'reprobate mind' passage and has shaped Christian social theology's insistence on the connection between theological and ethical formation.

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ASV

Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

YLT

`Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife <FI>is<Fi> to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,

BBE

Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.

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