Amos 2:13
So I will crush you like [SIM] the wheels of a wagon that is loaded with grain crushes whatever it rolls over.
Translation for Translators
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 39:12Can you rely on it to come back from the field, bringing your grain to the place where you thresh it?
Isaiah 1:14I [SYN] hate all your celebrations of each new moon and the other festivals that you celebrate each year. They are like [MET] a heavy burden that I am tired of carrying.
Isaiah 43:24You have bought for me fragrant reeds, and you have brought me the fat from your sacrifices. But these have not pleased me, because you have burdened me by all the sins that you have committed, and made me weary because of all ◄your iniquities/the wrong things that you have done►.
Ezekiel 16:43You have forgotten the wonderful things that I did for you in previous years [MET]. You have caused me to become extremely angry because of all the evil things that you have done. In addition to all the other detestable things that you did, you committed many sexual sins. So I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that I will punish you [IDM] for doing those things.
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 →