1. Hosea 4:1 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is wrong with Israel’s relationship with God and their neighbour?

Hosea 4:1 (ESV)

1 Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;

There is no faithfulness, no love, no knowledge of God. Note that these are all virtues that presuppose a relationship. Everything is wrong in their relationship with God and their neighbour. Unfaithfulness and lovelessness caused by lack of knowledge of God. Hosea will come back to this in Hosea 4:6. In any case, it is a knowledge that consists of knowing and loving.