⁷ moving quickly^[a] to rub the face^[b] of the needy in the dirt.
Corrupting^[c] the ways of the humble,
    a man and his father go to the same woman,
        deliberately defiling my holy name.
⁸ They lay down beside every altar,
    on garments pledged as collateral,^[d]
drinking wine paid for through fines
    imposed by the temple of their gods.
⁹ Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites in front of them,
    though their height seemed like a cedar,^[e]
    though their strength seemed like an oak,
but whose fruit I destroyed from above
    and the roots from beneath.