Amos 2:13
Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
In Context
12And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.
Cross References
Job 39:12Wilt thou trust him that he will render thee the seed, and gather it into thy barnfloor?
Isaiah 1:14My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.
Isaiah 43:24Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy victims. But thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities.
Ezekiel 16:43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me in all these things: wherefore I also have turned thy ways upon thy head, saith the Lord God, and I have not done according to thy wicked deeds in all thy 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 →