Amos 2:7-9

Contemporary English Version

My holy name is dishonored,
because fathers and sons sleep
    with the same young women.
⁸ 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.

^9 (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.