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Amos 2:8

Tree of Life Version

Upon garments taken in pledge they stretch out beside every altar, and drink wine confiscated as fines in the house of their gods.

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If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun goes down,

Upon a high and lofty mountain you made your bed. You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

wronged the poor and needy, taken by robbery, not restored the pledge, lifted up his eyes to the idols, committed abomination,

He does not wrong anyone, returns his pledge for a debt, does not commit robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment.

You sat on a glorious bed, with a table arranged before it, on which you set out My incense and My oil.

They feed on the sin of My people and relish their iniquity.

Nor did they not cry to Me in their heart when they were wailing on their beds. For the sake of grain and new wine they slash themselves— they keep turning away from Me.

“For in a day I shall punish Israel for the transgressions of Israel, and attend to the altars of Bethel— the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on Samaria’s hill, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their masters: “Bring, so we may drink.”

Reclining on beds of ivory, sprawling on their couches, dining on lambs from the flock and calves from amid the stall,

drinking wine from bowls, anointing with choice ointments— yet they are not sickened over the breakdown of Joseph.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”

For suppose someone sees you—who have this knowledge—dining in an idol’s temple. If his conscience is weak, won’t he be emboldened to eat idol sacrifices?

When they went out into the field, they gathered grapes of their vineyards, trod them and had a party. Then they went into the house of their god, ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.




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