Amos 2:13
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
In Context
12But all of you gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
Cross References
Job 39:12Will you believe him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather it into your barn?
Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Isaiah 43:24You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have made me to serve with your sins, you have wearied me with yours iniquities.
Ezekiel 16:43Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense your way upon yours head, says the Lord GOD: and you shall not commit this lewdness above all yours 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 →