Holy Scripture
Amos 2:11
A church father on this verse
“[This was the reason why] the Lord accused the Israelites more severely and showed that they deserved greater punishment, because they sinned after receiving the honors that he had bestowed on them. He said, "You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will visit upon you your iniquities," and…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
11And I took of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for consecration. Are not these things so, ye sons of Israel? saith the Lord.
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In context
9Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite from before them, whose height was as the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
10And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the desert forty years, that ye should inherit the land of the Amorites.
— Amos 2:11 —
12But ye gave the consecrated ones wine to drink; and ye commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
13Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a wagon full of straw is rolled.