Amos 2:13
Behold, I will press [you] in your place, as a cart presses that is full of sheaves.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
In Context
12But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Do not Prophesy.
Cross References
Job 39:12Will thou confide in him that he will bring home thy seed, and gather [the grain] of thy threshing-floor?
Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They are a trouble to me. I am weary of bearing them.
Isaiah 43:24Thou have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices. But thou have burdened me with thy sins. Thou have wearied me with thine iniquities.
Ezekiel 16:43Because thou have not remembered the days of thy youth, but have raged against me in all these things, therefore, behold, I also will bring thy way upon thy head, says lord LORD. And thou shall not commit this lewdness with all thi
Matthew Henry on Amos 2:10-16
God's Remonstrance with Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 9 Yet destroyed I 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 from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord . 12 But… Read the whole commentary →