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 —
⁷  they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth,
        and push the afflicted out of the way;
    father and son go in to the same girl,
        so that my holy name is profaned;
⁸  they lay themselves down beside every altar
        on garments taken in pledge;
    and in the house of their God they drink
        wine bought with fines they imposed.

⁹  Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them,
        whose height was like the height of cedars,
        and who was as strong as 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.

¹¹  And I raised up some of your children to be prophets
        and some of your youths to be nazirites.
        Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?
              says the LORD.

¹²  But you made the nazirites drink wine,
        and commanded the prophets,
        saying, “You shall not prophesy.”

¹³  So, I will press you down in your place,
        just as a cart presses down
        when it is full of sheaves.

¹⁴  Flight shall perish from the swift,
        and the strong shall not retain their strength,
        nor shall the mighty save their lives;

¹⁵  those who handle the bow shall not stand,
        and those who are swift of foot shall not save themselves,
        nor shall those who ride horses save their lives;

¹⁶ and those who are stout of heart among the mighty
shall flee away naked in that day,
says the LORD.