because they didn't obey the voice of Yahweh their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.
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TSK · Amos 2:6
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to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.
They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn't approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't pity them.