9. “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,Whose height was like the height of the cedars,And he was as strong as the oaks;Yet I destroyed his fruit aboveAnd his roots beneath.
10. Also it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,And led you forty years through the wilderness,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 it not so, O you children of Israel?”Says the Lord.
12. “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,And commanded the prophets saying,‘Do not prophesy!’
13. “Behold, I am weighed down by you,As a cart full of sheaves is weighed down.
14. Therefore flight shall perish from the swift,The strong shall not strengthen his power,Nor shall the mighty deliver himself;
15. He shall not stand who handles the bow,The swift of foot shall not escape,Nor shall he who rides a horse deliver himself.
16. The most courageous men of mightShall flee naked in that day,”Says the Lord.