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


In Context

5 And I have sent a fire against Judah, And it hath consumed palaces of Jerusalem.

6 Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their selling for silver the righteous, And the needy for a pair of sandals.

7 Who are panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And the way of the humble they turn aside, And a man and his father go unto the damsel, So as to pollute My holy name.

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

9 And I — I have destroyed the Amorite from before them, Whose height is as the height of cedars, And strong he is as the oaks, And I destroy his fruit from above, And his roots from beneath.

10 And I — I have brought you up from the land of Egypt, And cause you to go in a wilderness forty years, To possess the land of the Amorite.

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:8And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.

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 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.