Amos:2:6-16

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* Thus saith the Lord ; for three sins of Israel , and for four , I will not turn away from him ; because they sold the righteous for silver , and the poor for sandals , * * And binding their clothes with cords they have made them curtains near the altar , and they have drunk (note :)Gr . wine of false accusations (:note ) wine gained by extortion in the house of their God . * Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite from before them , whose height was as the height of a cedar , and he was strong as an oak ; and I dried up his fruit from above , and his roots from beneath . * And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt , and led you about in the desert forty years , that ye should inherit the land of the Amorites . * And I took of your sons for prophets , and of your young men for consecration . Are not these things so , ye sons of Israel ? saith the Lord . * But ye gave the consecrated ones wine to drink ; and ye commanded the prophets , saying , Prophesy not . * Therefore , behold , I roll under you , as a waggon full of straw is rolled . * And flight shall perish from the runner , and the strong shall not hold fast his strength , and the warrior shall not save his life : * and the archer shall not withstand , and he that is swift of foot shall in no wise escape ; and the horseman shall not save his life . * And the strong shall find no confidence in power : the naked shall flee away in that day , saith the Lord .

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