The Lord's Accusation against Israel (HOS 4:1-3)

[4:1] The Lord has an accusation to bring against the people who live in this land. Listen, Israel, to what he says: “There is no faithfulness or love in the land, and the people do not acknowledge me as God.

[4:2] They make promises and break them; they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery. Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another.

[4:3] And so the land will dry up, and everything that lives on it will die. All the animals and birds, and even the fish, will die.”