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Beside every altar, they spread themselves out on clothes
    taken as security.
    In the temples of their gods, they drink the wine
        that they bought with fines.

I destroyed the Amorites in front of them,
    although the Amorites were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks.
    I destroyed their fruit above the ground and their roots below it.

10 I brought you out of Egypt.
    I led you through the desert for 40 years
        so that you could take possession of the land of the Amorites.

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They lie down beside every altar
    on garments taken in pledge.(A)
In the house of their god
    they drink wine(B) taken as fines.(C)

“Yet I destroyed the Amorites(D) before them,
    though they were tall(E) as the cedars
    and strong as the oaks.(F)
I destroyed their fruit above
    and their roots(G) below.
10 I brought you up out of Egypt(H)
    and led(I) you forty years in the wilderness(J)
    to give you the land of the Amorites.(K)

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And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

10 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.

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