Hosea 4:2

"Hear the LORD’s word, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land."

Key Reflection

This passage highlights the spiritual depravity of ancient Israel, emphasizing that without truth, goodness, or knowledge of God, the people had strayed from divine principles. This moral decay was seen as a primary cause for divine judgment and the need for repentance.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

By swearing, and lying ... -Literally, “swearing or cursing” , “and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery!” The words in Hebrew are nouns of action. The Hebrew form is very vivid and solemn. It is far more forcible than if he had said, “They swear, lie, kill, and steal.” It expresses that these sins were continual, that nothing else (so to speak) was going on; that it was all one scene of such sins, one course of them, and of nothing besides; as we say more familiarly, “It was all, swearing, lying, killing, stealing, committing adultery.” It is as if the prophet, seeing wit

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