Amos 2:13
New International Version
“Now then, I will crush you as a cart crushes when loaded with grain.

New Living Translation
“So I will make you groan like a wagon loaded down with sheaves of grain.

English Standard Version
“Behold, I will press you down in your place, as a cart full of sheaves presses down.

Berean Standard Bible
Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.

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

New King James Version
“Behold, I am weighed down by you, As a cart full of sheaves is weighed down.

New American Standard Bible
“Behold, I am making a rut in the ground beneath you, Just as a wagon makes a rut when filled with sheaves.

NASB 1995
“Behold, I am weighted down beneath you As a wagon is weighted down when filled with sheaves.

NASB 1977
“Behold, I am weighted down beneath you As a wagon is weighted down when filled with sheaves.

Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, I am weighted down beneath you As a wagon is weighted down when filled with sheaves.

Amplified Bible
“Behold, I am weighted down beneath you As a cart that is weighted down when it is full of sheaves.

Christian Standard Bible
Look, I am about to crush you in your place as a wagon crushes when full of grain.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Look, I am about to crush you in your place as a wagon full of sheaves crushes grain.

American Standard Version
Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Behold, I am distressed under you, as a wagon that is full of ears of corn is distressed

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Therefore, behold, I roll under you, as a waggon full of straw is rolled.

Contemporary English Version
And so I will crush you, just as a wagon full of grain crushes the ground.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay.

English Revised Version
Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I am going to crush you as an overloaded wagon crushes a person.

Good News Translation
And now I will crush you to the ground, and you will groan like a cart loaded with grain.

International Standard Version
"Oh, how I am burdened down with you, as a wagon is overloaded with harvested grain!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Behold, I will make it creak under you, As a cart creaketh that is full of sheaves.

Literal Standard Version
Behold, I am pressing you under, | As the full cart presses a sheaf for itself.

Majority Standard Bible
Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.

New American Bible
Look, I am groaning beneath you, as a wagon groans when laden with sheaves.

NET Bible
Look! I will press you down, like a cart loaded down with grain presses down.

New Revised Standard Version
So, I will press you down in your place, just as a cart presses down when it is full of sheaves.

New Heart English Bible
Look, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

World English Bible
Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, I am pressing you under, As the full cart doth press for itself a sheaf.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Judgment on Moab, Judah, and Israel
12“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy. 13Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain. 14Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.…

Cross References
Genesis 37:7
We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine."

Numbers 7:3
They brought as their offering before the LORD six covered carts and twelve oxen--an ox from each leader and a cart from every two leaders--and presented them before the tabernacle.

Isaiah 1:14
I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Behold.

Psalm 78:40
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

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.

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?

I am pressed, etc.

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Amos 2
1. God's judgments upon Moab,
4. upon Judah,
6. and upon Israel.
9. God complains of their ingratitude.














(13) I am pressed.--Baur, Pusey, and Speaker's Commentary support this rendering of the Heb. m?'iq, the corresponding form in the next clause also being taken in the intransitive (i.e., passive sense). But it is unlikely that God, in this passage, should declare Himself "crushed" under the weight of Israel's sin, for in the context it is Israel, and not God, who is described as the victim, Moreover, grammatical usage is against the rendering of m?'iq as passive; nor does it favour Ewald's, as well as Keil's, interpretation "press you down" Translate (see margin) Behold, I am pressing down beneath you (literally, your place), just as the waggon, filled up with sheaves, presses down. Jehovah, in the awful judgment which He inflicts, is symbolised by the heavily-laden waggon. The expression "beneath you" suggests that the evil is not confined to the present. Israel, the nation weighted with the doom of past iniquities, bequeathes a yet more crushing load to future generations. If the text is sound, this appears the only satisfactory rendering of a difficult passage.

Verses 13-16 threaten severe punishment for the sins mentioned above. Verse 13. - Behold, I am pressed under you; Septuagint, κυλίω ὑποκάτω ὑμῶν, "I roll under you;" Vulgate, stridebo subter vos; Syriac, as Anglican; Hitzig, "I make it totter beneath you, as a cart tottereth;" Ewald, Keil," I will press you down, as the cart presseth;" Baur, Pusey, "I straiten myself under you, as a cart is straitened;" Revised Version, "I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth." The translation of Keil, which is that of Gesenius, is most suitable, meaning, "I will press you with the full force of war, as a loaded wain presses the earth over which it passes." The sense of the English Version is that God is burdened and wearied with their sins, as Isaiah 43:24; Malachi 2:17. The verb, being hiphil, is an objection to this explanation. The comparison of the wain is very natural in the mouth of the shepherd Amos.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Behold,
הִנֵּ֛ה (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

I
אָנֹכִ֥י (’ā·nō·ḵî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 595: I

am about to crush you
מֵעִ֖יק (mê·‘îq)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5781: Perhaps to totter, cause tottering

in your place
תַּחְתֵּיכֶ֑ם (taḥ·tê·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

as
כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

a wagonload
הָעֲגָלָ֔ה (hā·‘ă·ḡā·lāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5699: Something revolving, a wheeled vehicle

of
לָ֖הּ (lāh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

sheaves
עָמִֽיר׃ (‘ā·mîr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5995: A swath, row of fallen grain

crushes grain.
תָּעִיק֙ (tā·‘îq)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5781: Perhaps to totter, cause tottering


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