6. Thus said יהוה, “For three transgressions of Yisra’ĕl, and for four, I do not turn it back, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals,
7. who crush the head of the poor ones in the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go in to the same girl, to defile My set-apart Name.
8. “And they lie down by every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their mighty one they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
9. “Yet I 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 from above and his roots from beneath.
10. “And I brought you up from the land of Mitsrayim, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
11. “And I raised up some of your sons as prophets, and some of your young men as Nazirites. Not so? O you children of Yisra’ĕl?” declares יהוה.
12. “But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets saying, ‘Do not prophesy!’