9 “Yet it was I who destroyed the ^aAmorite before them,
Whose height was like the ^bheight of the cedars,
And he was as strong as the oaks;
Yet I ^cdestroyed his fruit above
And his roots beneath. ‡

10 Also it was ^aI who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And ^bled you forty years through the wilderness,
To possess the land of the Amorite. ‡

12 “But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,
And commanded the prophets ^asaying,
‘Do not prophesy!’ ‡

13 “Behold,^a I am weighed down by you,
As a cart full of sheaves¹ is weighed down. ‡