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They lay down beside every altar,
    on garments pledged as collateral,[a]
drinking wine paid for through fines
    imposed by the temple of their gods.
Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites in front of them,
    though their height seemed like a cedar,[b]
    though their strength seemed like an oak,
but whose fruit I destroyed from above
    and the roots from beneath.
10 Furthermore, I brought you up from the land of Egypt,
    leading you in the wilderness for 40 years,
        to take possession of the land of the Amorites.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 2:8 I.e. violating Deut 24:10-13 in addition to idolatry
  2. Amos 2:9 I.e. a genus of coniferous evergreen in the family Pinaceae