6. The Lord proclaims:For three crimes of Israel,and for four, I won’t hold back the punishment,because they have sold the innocent for silver,and those in need for a pair of sandals.
7. They crush the head of the poor into the dust of the earth,and push the afflicted out of the way.Father and son have intercourse with the same young woman,degrading my holy name.
8. They stretch out beside every altaron garments taken in loan;in the house of their god they drinkwine bought with fines they imposed.
9. Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them,whose height was as tall as cedar trees,and whose strength was as strong as oak trees.I destroyed his fruit aboveand his roots below.
10. Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt,and led you forty years in the wilderness,to lay claim to the land of the Amorite.
11. I raised up some of your children to be prophetsand some of your youth to be nazirites.Isn’t this so, people of Israel?says the Lord.
12. But you made the nazirites drink wine,and commanded the prophets,saying, "You won’t prophesy."
13. So now I will oppress you,just like a cart is weighed downwhen it is full of harvested grain.