Amos 2:13
Behold, I will crush you in your place,as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
In Context
12"But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink,and commanded the prophets, saying, 'Do not prophesy!'
Cross References
Job 39:12Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed,and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
Isaiah 1:14My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts.They are a burden to me.I am weary of bearing them.
Isaiah 43:24You have bought me no sweet cane with money,nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices;but you have burdened me with your sins.You have wearied me with your iniquities.
Ezekiel 16:43"'Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head,' says the Lord God: 'and you shall not commit this lewdness with 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 →