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Amos 2:7-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

7. They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name.

8. And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.

9. Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath.

10. It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite.

11. And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not so, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord?

12. And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.

13. Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay.

14. And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life.

15. And he that holdeth the bow shall not stand, and the swift of foot shall not escape, neither shall the rider of the horse save his life.

16. And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.

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