Amos 2:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

Amos 2:13 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 1:14
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Psalms 78:40
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Isaiah 43:24
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.
Ezekiel 6:9
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.
Isaiah 7:13
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?

Topics

Israel, Prophecies Concerning

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 mea…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. I am pressed under you--so Calvin (Compare Is 1:14). The Margin translates actively, “I will depress your place,” that is, “I will make it narrow,” a metaphor for afflicting a people; the opposite of enlarging, that is, relieving (Psa 4:1; Pr 4:12). Maurer translates, “I will press you down” (not as Margin, “your place”; so the Hebrew, Job 40:12; or Am 2:7 in Hebrew text). Amos, as a shepherd,…