They trample the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth
and deny justice to the oppressed.
A man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Amos 2:7 in context
Amos 2:4–10
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The LORD says:
“For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
because they have rejected the LORD’s law,
and have not kept his statutes,
and their lies have led them astray,
after which their fathers walked;
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but I will send a fire on Judah,
and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
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The LORD says:
“For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
because they have sold the righteous for silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals;
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Selected verse
They trample the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth
and deny justice to the oppressed.
A man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name.
8
They lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge.
In the house of their God 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 strong as the oaks;
yet I destroyed his fruit from above,
and his roots from beneath.
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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.
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