8. Upon garments taken in pledgethey recline beside any altar. Wine at treasury expensethey drink in their temples.
9. Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites before them,who were as tall as cedars,and as strong as oak trees.I destroyed their fruit aboveand their roots beneath.
10. It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,and who led you through the desert for forty years,to occupy the land of the Amorites;
11. I who raised up prophets among your children,and nazirites among your young men.Is this not so, Israelites?—oracle of the Lord.