Holy Scripture
Hosea 4:2
A church father on this verse
“After Moses, prophets were sent to heal Israel. But in their exercise of healing they deplored the fact that they could not overcome evil, so that one of them says, "The faithful are gone from the earth, among men the upright are no more," and again, "All alike have gone astray; they have become perverse; there is not…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery abound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.
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In context
1Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
— Hosea 4:2 —
3Therefore 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:
4that neither anyone may plead, nor anyone reprove another: but my people are as a priest spoken against.