Amos 2:13

Listen! It is I who will make you groan in your places, as a wagon groans under its load of grain.

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In The King James Version

Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

In Context

12But you made the Nazirites drink wine and banned the prophets from prophesying.

14Then flight will fail the swift, and the strength of the strongest will be useless. The warrior will not save his life,

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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 →

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