⁷ They pushed their faces into the ground and walked on them. They stopped listening to suffering people. Fathers and sons had sexual relations with the same woman. They ruined my holy name. ⁸ They took clothes from the poor, and then they sat on those clothes while worshiping at their altars. They loaned money to the poor, and then they took their clothes as a promise for payment.^[a] They made people pay fines and used the money to buy wine for themselves to drink in the temple of their god.

⁹ “But it was I who destroyed the Amorites^[b] before them. They were as tall as cedar trees and as strong as oaks, but I destroyed their fruit above and their roots below.^[c]