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Amos 2:8-16 New Century Version (NCV)

8. As they worship at their altars,they lie down on clothes taken from the poor.They fine people,and with that money they buy wine to drink in the house of their god.

9. “But it was I who destroyed the Amorites before them,who were tall like cedar trees and as strong as oaks—I destroyed them completely.

10. It was I who brought you from the land of Egyptand led you for forty years through the desertso I could give you the land of the Amorites.

11. I made some of your children to be prophetsand some of your young people to be Nazirites.People of Israel, isn’t this true?” says the Lord.

12. “But you made the Nazirites drink wineand told the prophets not to prophesy.

13. Now I will make you get stuck,as a wagon loaded with grain gets stuck.

14. No one will escape, not even the fastest runner.Strong people will not be strong enough;warriors will not be able to save themselves.

15. Soldiers with bows and arrows will not stand and fight,and even fast runners will not get away;soldiers on horses will not escape alive.

16. At that time even the bravest warriorswill run away without their armor,” says the Lord.

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