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They lie down beside altars
on clothes taken
    as security for loans.
And they drink wine in my temple,
wine bought with the money
    they received from fines.

(A) Israel, the Amorites[a] were there
    when you entered Canaan.
They were tall as cedars
    and strong as oaks.
But I wiped them out—
I destroyed their branches
    and their roots.
10 I had rescued you from Egypt,
and for forty years I had led you
    through the desert.
Then I gave you the land
    of the Amorites.

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Footnotes

  1. 2.9 Amorites: This word is used for all the people who lived in Canaan at the time Israel took over the land.

They lie down beside every altar
    on garments taken in pledge.(A)
In the house of their god
    they drink wine(B) taken as fines.(C)

“Yet I destroyed the Amorites(D) before them,
    though they were tall(E) as the cedars
    and strong as the oaks.(F)
I destroyed their fruit above
    and their roots(G) below.
10 I brought you up out of Egypt(H)
    and led(I) you forty years in the wilderness(J)
    to give you the land of the Amorites.(K)

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