Amos 2:13
Behold, I will press you down, As a wagon presseth down that is full of sheaves.
Noyes Bible
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 Nazarites wine to drink, And commanded the prophets, Saying, Prophesy not!
Cross References
Job 39:12Wilt thou trust him to bring home thy grain, And gather in thy harvest?
Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your feasts my soul hateth; They are a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
Isaiah 43:24Thou hast bought me no sweet-smelling reed with silver, Neither hast thou satisfied me with the fat of thy sacrifices; With thy sins hast thou burdened me, And 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, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah, so that thou shalt not commit this wickedness in addition to 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 →