Amos 2:13

Lo! I, am pressed under you,—as a full cart is pressed by its sheaves,

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12And yet ye caused the Nazirites to drink wine,—and, on the prophet, laid ye command, saying, Ye shall not prophesy!

14Therefore shall flight, perish, from the swift, and, the mighty, shall not invigorate his strength,—nor shall, the hero, escape with his life;

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Cross References

Job 39:12Wilt thou put faith in him, that he will bring back thy seed? and that, corn for thy threshing-floor, he will gather?

Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed feasts, my soul, hateth,—They have become unto me a burden I am too weary to bear:

Isaiah 43:24Thou hast not bought for me with silver, fragrant calamus, Nor with the fat of thy sacrifices, hast thou sated me,—Thou hast done nothing but oppress me with thy sins, Thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

Ezekiel 16:43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, But hast enraged me with all these things Therefore also behold! I thy way, upon thine own head, will place Declareth My Lord Yahweh, And thou shalt not commit a crime above all thine 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 →

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