6. The Lord says:I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four,because they sell a righteous person for silverand a needy person for a pair of sandals.
7. They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the groundand block the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relationswith the same girl, profaning My holy name.
8. They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken as collateral, and in the house of their God,they drink wine obtained through fines.
9. Yet I destroyed the Amorite as Israel advanced;his height was like the cedars,and he was as sturdy as the oaks;I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.
10. And I brought you from the land of Egypt and led you 40 years in the wilderness in order to possess the land of the Amorite.
11. I raised up some of your sons as prophets and some of your young men as Nazirites. Is this not the case, Israelites?This is the Lord’s declaration.
12. But you made the Nazirites drink wineand commanded the prophets,“Do not prophesy.”
13. Look, I am about to crush you in your place as a wagon full of sheaves crushes grain.
14. Escape will fail the swift, the strong one will not prevail by his strength, and the brave will not save his life.