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.
"Because there is no truth ..." God had not changed, but Israel had changed.  Having once known the true God, they knew him no more, having forsaken him to worship the old pagan gods of the land of Canaan.  Perhaps, "There were some righteous people left; but they were few, and they hid themselves from the face of the multitude who were wicked."[5]  The "truth" which was missing from Israel was the knowledge of God and of his revealed will, which is the only dependable, objective standard of "truth" the world has ever known.  Truth, God's truth, is the only basis of morality, order, and trust that has ever proved effective.  Morality cannot be subjectively determined.  Morality cannot be either determined or perpetuated upon humanistic considerations.  Morality can not be predicated upon merely intellectual and philosophical premises.  Either God's truth is received and honored, or immorality, shame and debauchery are the inevitable alternative.  Israel had chosen that awful alternative; and, as Butler stated it: