⁸ 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.
⁹ 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.