Amos:2:6-16

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* Thus says the LORD : "For three transgressions of Israel , and for four , I will not turn away its punishment , Because they sell the righteous for silver , And the poor for a pair of sandals . * They pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor , And pervert the way of the humble . A man and his father go in to the same girl , To defile My holy name . * They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge , And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god . * "Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them , Whose height was like the height of the cedars , And he was as strong as the oaks ; Yet I destroyed his fruit above And his roots beneath . * Also it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt , And led you forty years through the wilderness , To possess the land of the Amorite . * I raised up some of your sons as prophets , And some of your young men as Nazirites . Is it not so , O you children of Israel ?" Says the LORD . * "But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink , And commanded the prophets saying , "Do not prophesy !' * "Behold , I am weighed down by you , As a cart full of sheaves is weighed down . * Therefore flight shall perish from the swift , The strong shall not strengthen his power , Nor shall the mighty deliver himself ; * He shall not stand who handles the bow , The swift of foot shall not escape , Nor shall he who rides a horse deliver himself . * The most courageous men of might Shall flee naked in that day ," Says the LORD .

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