Amos 2:8,12
Amos 2:6-8 The Message (MSG)
GOD’s Message: “Because of the three great sins of Israel —make that four—I’m not putting up with them any longer. They buy and sell upstanding people. People for them are only things—ways of making money. They’d sell a poor man for a pair of shoes. They’d sell their own grandmother! They grind the penniless into the dirt, shove the luckless into the ditch. Everyone and his brother sleeps with the ‘sacred whore’— a sacrilege against my Holy Name. Stuff they’ve extorted from the poor is piled up at the shrine of their god, While they sit around drinking wine they’ve conned from their victims.
Amos 2:12-13 The Message (MSG)
“But you made the youth-in-training break training, and you told the young prophets, ‘Don’t prophesy!’ You’re too much for me. I’m hard-pressed—to the breaking point. I’m like a wagon piled high and overloaded, creaking and groaning.
Amos 2:8 King James Version (KJV)
and they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Amos 2:12 King James Version (KJV)
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Amos 2:8 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
On garments taken as pledges they stretch out beside every altar, And in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
Amos 2:12 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
“But you made the Nazirites drink wine, And you commanded the prophets saying, ‘You shall not prophesy!’
Amos 2:8 New Century Version (NCV)
As they worship at their altars, they lie down on clothes taken from the poor. They fine people, and with that money they buy wine to drink in the house of their god.
Amos 2:12 New Century Version (NCV)
“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and told the prophets not to prophesy.
Amos 2:8 American Standard Version (ASV)
and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.
Amos 2:12 American Standard Version (ASV)
But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Amos 2:8 New International Version (NIV)
They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. In the house of their god they drink wine taken as fines.
Amos 2:12 New International Version (NIV)
“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.
Amos 2:8 New King James Version (NKJV)
They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge, And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Amos 2:12 New King James Version (NKJV)
“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, And commanded the prophets saying, ‘Do not prophesy!’
Amos 2:8 Amplified Bible (AMP)
“They stretch out beside every [pagan] altar on clothes taken in pledge [to secure a loan, disregarding God’s command], And in the house of their God [in contempt of Him] they frivolously drink the wine [which has been] taken from those who have been fined. [Ex 22:26; Deut 24:12, 13]
Amos 2:12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink [despite their vows] And commanded the prophets, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy!’
Amos 2:8 New Living Translation (NLT)
At their religious festivals, they lounge in clothing their debtors put up as security. In the house of their gods, they drink wine bought with unjust fines.
Amos 2:12 New Living Translation (NLT)
“But you caused the Nazirites to sin by making them drink wine, and you commanded the prophets, ‘Shut up!’