Amos 2:13
Behold, I am pressing you under, || As the full cart presses a sheaf for itself.
Literal Standard Version
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 39:12Do you trust in him || That he brings back your seed, || And gathers [it to] your threshing-floor?
Isaiah 1:14My soul has hated your new moons and your set seasons, || They have been on Me for a burden, || I have been weary of bearing.
Isaiah 43:24You have not bought Me sweet cane with money, || And have not filled Me [with] the fat of your sacrifices, || Only—you have caused Me to serve with your sins, || You have wearied Me with your iniquities.
Ezekiel 16:43Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, || And give trouble to Me in all these, || Therefore I also—behold—I put your way on [your own] head, || A declaration of Lord YHWH, || And you will not have done—have done this wickedness above 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 →