Amos 2:13
Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a waggon full of straw is rolled.
Brenton Septuagint
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 consecrated ones wine to drink; and ye commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Cross References
Job 39:12And wilt thou believe that he will return to thee thy seed, and bring it in to thy threshing-floor?
Isaiah 1:14your fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: ye have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins.
Isaiah 43:24Neither hast thou purchased for me victims for silver, neither have I desired the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou didst stand before me in thy sins, and in thine iniquities.
Ezekiel 16:43Because thou didst not remember thine infancy, and thou didst grieve me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed thy ways upon thine head, saith the Lord: for thus hast thou wrought ungodliness above all thine other iniquities.
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 →