6 Thus says the Lord:
“For three transgressions of ^aIsrael, and for four,
I will not turn away its punishment,
Because ^bthey sell the righteous for silver,
And the ^cpoor for a pair of sandals. ‡

7 They¹ pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor,
And ^apervert the way of the humble.
^bA man and his father go in to the same girl,
^cTo defile My holy name. ‡

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. ‡