8 They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge,And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
9 “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,Whose height was like the height of the cedars,And he was as strong as the oaks;Yet I destroyed his fruit aboveAnd his roots beneath.
10 Also it was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,And led you forty years through the wilderness,To possess the land of the Amorite.
11 I raised up some of your sons as prophets,And some of your young men as Nazirites.Is it not so, O you children of Israel?”Says the Lord.
12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,And commanded the prophets saying,‘Do not prophesy!’
13 “Behold, I am weighed down by you,As a cart full of sheaves is weighed down.
14 Therefore flight shall perish from the swift,The strong shall not strengthen his power,Nor shall the mighty deliver himself;