Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; For Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, Nor goodness, Nor knowledge of God in the land.
"The ultimate cause of the decline and final collapse of every nation or civilization has been moral and spiritual rather than material."[7]  The word here rendered "truth" is translated as "faithfulness" in some versions; and the term certainly includes the sense of "truth obeyed"; but "faithfulness" has the weakness of leaving open the question of "faithfulness to what?"  "Truth" is to be preferred here.