Catholic Public Domain Version
"It is I who caused you to ascend from the land of Egypt, and I led you in the wilderness for forty years, so that you might possess the land of the Amorite. "
— Amos 2:10, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. ”
“Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.”
“I brought you up from the land of Egypt; I led you through the wilderness for forty years so you could take the Amorites’ land as your own.”
“It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite.”
“And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.”
“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.”
They grind the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth, and they divert the way of the humble. And the son, as well as his father, have gone to the same girl, so that they outrage my holy name.
And they have lain on garments taken in pledge next to every altar. And they drank the wine of the damned in the house of their God.
Yet I exterminated the Amorites before their face, whose height was like the height of cedars, and whose strength was like the oak. And I crushed his fruit from above and his roots below.
It is I who caused you to ascend from the land of Egypt, and I led you in the wilderness for forty years, so that you might possess the land of the Amorite.
And I stirred up prophets from your sons, and Nazirites from your young men. Is it not so, sons of Israel, says the Lord?
Yet you would offer wine to the Nazirites, and you would command the prophets, saying: “Do not prophesy.”
Behold, I will creak under you, just as a wagon creaks that is laden with hay.