8And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.


In Context

5 And I will send a fire into Juda, and it shall devour the houses of Jerusalem.

6 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.

7 They bruise the heads of the poor upon the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the humble: and the son and his father have gone to the same young woman, to profane my holy name.

8 And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.

9 Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath.

10 It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite.

Amos 2:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:8And 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:8They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. In the house of their god they drink wine taken as fines.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:8and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8And they lay themselves down by every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and they drink in the house of their God the wine of the condemned.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:8and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8And 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8And on pledged garments they stretch themselves near every altar, And the wine of fined ones they drink in the house of their gods.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:8And they lay themselves down on clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.