[2:6] 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 sandals—
[2:7] those who 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 girl, so that my holy name is profaned;
[2:8] they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
[2:9] “Yet it was I who 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.
[2:10] Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
[2:11] And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?”
[2:12] “But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’
[2:13] “Behold, I will press you down in your place, as a cart full of sheaves presses down.
[2:14] Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain his strength, nor shall the mighty save his life;
[2:15] he who handles the bow shall not stand, and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself, nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;
[2:16] and he who is stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day,”