Amos 2:13

Lo! I shall creak under you, as a wain charged with hay creaketh. (Behold! I shall creak under you, like a wagon, loaded with hay, creaketh.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12And ye poured out wine to (the) Nazarites, and commanded to (the) prophets, and said, Prophesy ye not.

14And flight shall perish from a swift man, and a strong man shall not hold his strength, and a stalworthy man shall not save his life; (And the swift shall not be able to escape, and a strong man shall not be able to hold onto his own strength, and a stalwart man, or a warrior, shall not be able to save his own life;)

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Cross References

Job 39:12Whether thou shalt believe to him, that he shall yield seed to thee, and shall gather (it) together (for) thy cornfloor? (Shalt thou trust him, that he shall bring in thy seed to thee, and shall gather it unto thy threshing floor?)

Isaiah 1:14my soul hateth your calends and your solemnities; those be dis-easeful to me, I travailed (with) suffering. (my soul hateth your calends and your feasts; they be distasteful to me, and I am tired of having to witness them.)

Isaiah 43:24Thou boughtest not to me sweet smelling spicery for silver, and thou filledest not me with [the] fatness of thy slain sacrifices; nevertheless thou madest me to serve in thy sins, thou gavest travail to me in thy wickednesses. (Thou hast not brought me sweet smelling spices with thy silver, and thou hast not fulfilled, or satisfied, me, or and thou hast not filled me with the fatness of thy slain sacrifices; nevertheless thou hast burdened me with thy sins, and thou hast given me trials and tribulation with thy wickednesses.)

Ezekiel 16:43for thou haddest not mind on the days of thy young waxing age, and thou stirredest me to ire in all these things. Wherefore and I gave thy ways in thine head, saith the Lord God, and I did not after thy great trespasses, in all these thine abominations. (for thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, and thou stirredest me to anger in all these things. And so I gave thy ways back upon thy own head, saith the Lord God, for thou should not do after thy great trespasses, and all these thy 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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