Hosea 4:2-4

New International Reader's Version

² People curse one another.
    They tell lies and commit murder.
    They steal and commit adultery.
They break all my laws.
    They keep spilling the blood of other people.
³ That is why the land is drying up.
    All those who live in it
    are getting weaker and weaker.
The wild animals and the birds in the sky are dying.
    So are the fish in the ocean.