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Thus saith the LORD: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes.
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They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid to profane My holy name.
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And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid in pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
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"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 from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness to possess the land of the Amorite.
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And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel?" saith the LORD.
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"But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, `Prophesy not.'
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"Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
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Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself.
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Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow, and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself; neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
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And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day," saith the LORD.