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Judgment on Moab, Judah, and Israel

Amos 2:13

In 11 translations

BSB
Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.
KJV
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.I am…: or, I will press your place, as a cart full of sheaves presseth
WEB
Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
ASV
Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
LSV
Behold, I am pressing you under, || As the full cart presses a sheaf for itself.
YLT
Lo, I am pressing you under, As the full cart doth press for itself a sheaf.
DBY
Behold, I will press upon you, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
DRC
Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay.
GNV
Behold, I am pressed vnder you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaues.
JPS
Behold, I will make it creak under you, as a cart creaketh that is full of sheaves.
LXXE
Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a waggon full of straw is rolled.

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הִנֵּ֛ה אָנֹכִ֥י מֵעִ֖יק תַּחְתֵּיכֶ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר תָּעִיק֙ הָעֲגָלָ֔ה הַֽמְלֵאָ֥ה לָ֖הּ עָמִֽיר׃
LXX-Br
Διατοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ κυλίω ὑποκάτω ὑμῶν, ὃν τρόπον κυλίεται ἡ ἅμαξα ἡ γέμουσα καλάμης.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 1:14I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
  • Ezekiel 16:43Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of…
  • Isaiah 7:13Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?
  • Isaiah 43:24You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
  • Ezekiel 6:9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So…
  • Psalms 78:40How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
  • Malachi 2:17You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”

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