Amos 2:9-16 ▼

9 And I—I have destroyed the Amorite before their faces, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the Oaks; and I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

10 And I brought you? up from the land of Egypt, and I led you? in the wilderness forty years, 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. Indeed, Is it not thus, O sons of Israel?” An utterance of YHWH.

12 “And the Nazirites you? made to drink wine, and regarding the prophets you? commanded, saying, ‘You? will not prophesy.’

13 Behold, I am going to press you? under, as a cart full of sheaves presses down.

14 And flight will perish from the swift, and the strong will not strengthen his power, and the mighty will not deliver his soul.

15 And the one handling the bow will not stand, and the one swift in his feet will not escape, and the one riding a horse will not deliver his soul;

16 and the strong in his heart among the mighty ones will flee naked on that day,” a declaration of YHWH.