Amos 2:13
Good News Translation
And now I will crush you to the ground, and you will groan like a cart loaded with grain.

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.

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Behold.

Psalm 78:40 How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

Isaiah 1:14 My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 7:13 And he said: Hear ye therefore, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God also?

Isaiah 43:24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy victims. But thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities.

Ezekiel 6:9 And they that are saved of you shall remember me amongst the nations, to which they are carried captives: because I have broken their heart that was faithless, and revolted from me: and their eyes that went a fornicating after their idols: and they shall be displeased with themselves because of the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Ezekiel 16:43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me in all these things: wherefore I also have turned all thy ways upon thy head, saith the Lord God, and I have not done according to thy wicked deeds in all thy abominations.

Malachi 2:17 You have wearied the Lord with your words, and you said: Wherein have we wearied him? In that you say: Every one that doth evil, is good in the sight of the Lord, and such please him: or surely where is the God of judgment?

I am pressed, etc.

Context
Judgment on Moab, Judah, and Israel
12And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not. 13Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay.14And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life.…
Cross References
Genesis 37:7
I thought we were binding sheaves in the field: and my sheaf arose as it were, and stood, and your sheaves standing about bowed down before my sheaf.

Numbers 7:3
Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons covered, and twelve oxen. Two princes offered one wagon, and each one an ox, and they offered them before the tabernacle.

Isaiah 1:14
My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.

Amos 2:12
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