Amos 2:7-9

New Living Translation

⁷They trample helpless people in the dust
    and shove the oppressed out of the way.
Both father and son sleep with the same woman,
    corrupting my holy name.
⁸At their religious festivals,
    they lounge in clothing their debtors put up as security.
In the house of their gods,^[a]
    they drink wine bought with unjust fines.

⁹“But as my people watched,
    I destroyed the Amorites,
though they were as tall as cedars
    and as strong as oaks.
I destroyed the fruit on their branches
    and dug out their roots.

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Footnotes

2:8 Or their God.

Amos 2:7-9

New International Version

⁷They trample on the heads of the poor
    as on the dust of the ground
    and deny justice to the oppressed.
Father and son use the same girl
    and so profane my holy name.^(A)
⁸They lie down beside every altar
    on garments taken in pledge.^(B)
In the house of their god
    they drink wine^(C) taken as fines.^(D)

⁹“Yet I destroyed the Amorites^(E) before them,
    though they were tall^(F) as the cedars
    and strong as the oaks.^(G)
I destroyed their fruit above
    and their roots^(H) below.

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Amos 2:7-9

King James Version

⁷That 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:

⁸And 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.

⁹Yet 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.

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