In Context

8 and 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.

9 Yet I destroyed 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 out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

11 I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn't this true, you children of Israel?| says Yahweh.

12 |But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, 'Don't prophesy!'

13 Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

Amos 2:11 in Other Translations