6 Thus says the Lord:

“For three transgressions of Israel,

and for four, I will not revoke the punishment;*

because they sell the righteous for silver,

and the needy for a pair of shoes—

7 they that trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth,

and turn aside the way of the afflicted;

a man and his father go in to the same maiden,

so that my holy name is profaned;

8 they lay themselves down beside every altar

upon garments taken in pledge;

and 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 who was as strong as the oaks;

I destroyed his fruit above,

and his roots 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.