OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 8

Amos 2:8

World English Bible Updated

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.

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Amos 2:8 in context

Amos 2:5–11

5

but I will send a fire on Judah,

and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”

6

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;

7

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
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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.

10

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.

11

I raised up some of your sons for prophets,

and some of your young men for Nazirites.

Isn’t this true,

you children of Israel?” says the LORD.

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Source notes

Notes from World English Bible Updated

  1. The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

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