Amos 2:13

Behold, I will creak under you, just as a wagon creaks that is laden with hay.

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In The King James Version

Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

In Context

12Yet you would offer wine to the Nazirites, and you would command the prophets, saying: “Do not prophesy.”

14And flight will perish from the swift, and the strong will not maintain his strength, and the healthy will not save his life.

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Cross References

Job 39:12Will you trust him to return to you the seed, and to gather it on your drying floor?

Isaiah 1:14My soul hates your days of proclamation and your solemnities. They have become bothersome to me. I labor to endure them.

Isaiah 43:24You have bought me no sweet cane with money, and you have not inebriated me with the fat of your victims. Yet truly, you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

Ezekiel 16:43For you have not remembered the days of your youth, and you have provoked me in all these things. Because of this, I also have delivered all your ways upon your head, says the Lord God, but I have not acted in accord with your wickedness in all your abominations.

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 →

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