KJV King James Version
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that is] full of sheaves.
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Amos 2:13
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that is] full of sheaves.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.
WEB World English Bible
Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
ASV American Standard Version
Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Lo, I am pressing you under, As the full cart doth press for itself a sheaf.
Surrounding context — Amos 2
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 ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that is] full of sheaves.
14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and [he that is] swift of foot shall not deliver [himself]: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
16 And [he that is] courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.
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Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].Psalm 78:40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!Isaiah 7:13And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; [Is it] a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?Malachi 2:17Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied [him]? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil [is] good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where [is] the God of judgment?Isaiah 43:24Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.Ezekiel 16:43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these [things]; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon [thine] head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.Ezekiel 6:9And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
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