They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge, And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Amos 2:8
Surrounding context
2:7 They pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor, And pervert the way of the humble. A man and his father go in to the same girl, To defile My holy name.
2:8 They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge, And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
2:9 "Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was as strong as the oaks; Yet I destroyed his fruit above And his roots beneath.