8. and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.
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 out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in 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 Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.
12. But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
13. Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
14. And 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.