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Amos 2:6: 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;

Amos 2:7: 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:

Amos 2:8: 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.

Amos 2:9: 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.

Amos 2:10: 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. 

Amos 2:11: 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.

Amos 2:12: But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. 

Amos 2:13: Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. 

Amos 2:14: Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

Amos 2:15: 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.

Amos 2:16: And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.