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Amos 2:10-16 English Standard Version (ESV)

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.

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?”declares the Lord.

12. “But you made the Nazirites drink wine,and commanded the prophets,saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’

13. “Behold, I will press you down in your place,as a cart full of sheaves presses down.

14. Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain his strength, nor shall the mighty save his life;

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;

16. and he who is stout of heart among the mightyshall flee away naked in that day,”declares the Lord.