Amos 2:13
Behold, I press down [the ground] under you, as the wagon presseth [it] down that is full of sheaves.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
In Context
Cross References
Job 39:12Wilt thou confide in him, that he should bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy threshing-floor?—
Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are become a burden unto me; I am weary to bear them,
Isaiah 43:24Thou hast not bought for me sweet cane, and with the fat of thy sacrifices hast thou not satisfied me; but thou hast troubled me with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities.
Ezekiel 16:43Because that thou didst not remember the days of thy youth, but didst irritate me with all these things: behold, therefore I also will bring thy course upon thy head, saith the Lord Eternal, and thou shalt no more commit incest with all thy [other] 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 →