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At their religious feasts they lounge in clothing stolen from their debtors, and in my own Temple they offer sacrifices of wine they purchased with stolen money.

“Yet think of all I did for them! I cleared the land of the Amorites before them—the Amorites, as tall as cedar trees, and strong as oaks! But I lopped off their fruit and cut their roots. 10 And I brought you out from Egypt and led you through the desert forty years, to possess the land of the Amorites.

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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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