NET Bible
"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."
— Amos 2:10, NET Bible
“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.”
“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 trample on the dirt-covered heads of the poor; they push the destitute away. A man and his father go to the same girl; in this way they show disrespect for my moral purity.
They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple of their God!
For Israel’s sake I destroyed the Amorites. They were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks, but I destroyed the fruit on their branches and their roots in the ground.
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.
I made some of your sons prophets and some of your young men Nazirites. Is this not true, you Israelites?” The LORD is speaking!
“But you made the Nazirites drink wine; you commanded the prophets,‘Do not prophesy!’
Look! I will press you down, like a cart loaded down with grain presses down.