Amos 2:9-11

Modern English Version

⁹ Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,
    whose height was like the height of the cedars.
    He was strong as the oaks,
yet I destroyed his fruit above
    and his roots below.

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ I raised up some of your sons as prophets,
    and some of your young men as Nazirites.
Is it not so, O children of Israel?
    says the Lord.