They lie down (A)by every altar on clothes (B)taken in pledge,
And drink the wine of [a]the condemned in the house of their god.

“Yet it was I who destroyed the (C)Amorite before them,
Whose height was like the (D)height of the cedars,
And he was as strong as the oaks;
Yet I (E)destroyed his fruit above
And his roots beneath.
10 Also it was (F)I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And (G)led you forty years through the wilderness,
To possess the land of the Amorite.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 2:8 Or those punished by fines

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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