13Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
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Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Thou 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.
And 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.
And 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?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-16)Here, I. God puts his people Israel in mind of the great things he has done for them, in putting them into possession of the land of Canaan, the greatest part of which these ten tribes now enjoyed, Amos 2:9 , 10 . Note, We need often to be reminded of the mercies we have received, which are the heaviest aggravations of the sins we have committed. God gives liberally, and upbraids us not with our m…
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