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Amos 2:13

Amos 2:13
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Behold, I are pressed under you,.... With the weight of their sins, with which they had made him to serve, and had wearied him; his patience was quite wore out, he could bear them no longer:

as a…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Behold, I am pressed under you - God bore His people, as the wain bears the sheaves. “Ye yourselves have seen,” He said to them by Moses, “how I bare you on eagle’s wings, and brought you unto Myself”…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Behold, I am pressed under you - The marginal reading is better: "Behold, I will press your place, as a cart full of sheaves presseth." I will bring over you the wheel of destruction; and it shall…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Amos 2:9-16

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,…