Amos 2:13
Behold, I will press upon you, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
In Context
12And ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Cross References
Job 39:12Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?
Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your set feasts my soul hateth: they are a burden to me; I am wearied of bearing [them].
Isaiah 43:24Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast made me to toil with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
Ezekiel 16:43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast raged against me in all these [things], behold, therefore, I also will recompense thy way upon [thy] head, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou shalt not commit this lewdness besides all thine 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 →