Amos 2:6-16

Authorized (King James) Version

⁶ Thus saith the Lord;
For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four,
I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
because they sold the righteous for silver,
and the poor for a pair of shoes;
⁷ that 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:
⁸ and 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.

⁹ Yet 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.
¹⁰ Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt,
and led you forty years through the wilderness,
to possess the land of the Amorite.
¹¹ And I raised up of your sons for prophets,
and of your young men for Nazarites.
Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel?
saith the Lord.
¹² But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink;
and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
¹³ Behold, I am pressed under you,
as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
¹⁴ Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift,
and the strong shall not strengthen his force,
neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
¹⁵ neither shall he stand that handleth the bow;
and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself:
neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
¹⁶ And he that is courageous among the mighty
shall flee away naked in that day,
saith the Lord.