Amos 2:8

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6. Amos 2:6

   Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

7. Amos 2:7

   That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

9. Amos 2:9

   Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

10. Amos 2:10

    Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

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