Amos 2:11-13

Contemporary English Version

¹¹^(A) I chose some of you
to be prophets
    and others to be Nazirites.^[a]
People of Israel,
you know this is true.
    I, the Lord, have spoken!
¹²But you commanded the prophets
    not to speak their message,
and you pressured the Nazirites
    into drinking wine.

¹³And so I will crush you,
just as a wagon full of grain
crushes the ground.^[b]

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Footnotes

2.11 Nazirites: People who promised the Lord that they would never drink wine or cut their hair or come in contact with a dead body.
2.13 ground: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 13.