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It is he who is raining sudden destruction
    upon the strong like lightning,[a]
        so that ruin comes upon the fortress.
10 They have hated those who are presenting their cases in court,[b]
    detesting the one who speaks truthfully.

11 ‘Therefore, since you trample the poor continuously,
    taxing his grain,
    building houses of stone in which you won’t live
    and planting fine vineyards from which you won’t drink—

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:9 The Heb. lacks like lightning
  2. Amos 5:10 Lit. in the gate