JUDGMENT ON ISRAEL

6 The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Israelm

for three crimes, even four,

because they sell a righteous person for silver

and a needy person for a pair of sandals.n

7 They trample the heads of the pooro

on the dust of the ground

and obstruct the path of the needy.p

A man and his father have sexual relations

with the same girl,q

profaning my holy name.r

8 They stretch out beside every altars

on garments taken as collateral,t

and in the house of their God

they drink wine obtained through fines.u

9 Yet I destroyed the Amoritev as Israel advanced;

his heightw was like the cedars,

and he was as sturdy as the oaks;

I destroyed his fruitx above and his roots beneath.

10 And I brought you from the land of Egypty

and led you forty years in the wildernessz

in order to possess the land of the Amorite.aa

11 I raised up some of your sons as prophetsab

and some of your young men as Nazirites.ac

Is this not the case, Israelites?

This is the Lord’s declaration.

12 But you made the Nazirites drink wine

and commanded the prophets,

“Do not prophesy.”ad

13 Look, I am about to crushA you in your placeae

as a wagon crushes when full of grain.