Amos:2:6-16

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* Thus saith the LORD ; For three transgressions of Israel , and for four , I will not turn away the punishment thereof ; because they sold the righteous for silver , and the poor for a pair of shoes ; * That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor , and turn aside the way of the meek : and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid , to profane my holy name : * And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar , and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god . * Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them , whose height was like the height of the cedars , and he was strong as the oaks ; yet I destroyed his fruit from above , and his roots from beneath . * Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt , and led you forty years through the wilderness , to possess the land of the Amorite . * And I raised up of your sons for prophets , and of your young men for Nazarites . Is it not even thus , O ye children of Israel ? saith the LORD . * But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink ; and commanded the prophets , saying , Prophesy not . * Behold , I am pressed under you , as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves . * Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift , and the strong shall not strengthen his force , neither shall the mighty deliver himself : * Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow ; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself : neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself . * And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day , saith the LORD .

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