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Amos 2:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Look, I am about to crush   you in your place as a cart crushes when full of grain.

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10 Cross References  

I hate your New Moons and prescribed festivals. They have become a burden to me; I am tired of putting up with them.


You have wearied the Lord   with your words. Yet you ask, ‘How have we wearied him? ’ When you say, ‘Everyone who does what is evil is good in the Lord’s sight, and he is delighted with them,  or else where is the God of justice? ’


Because you did not remember the days  of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will also bring your conduct down on your own head.  This is the declaration of the Lord God. Haven’t you committed depravity in addition to all your detestable practices?


Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive,  how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols.  They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did,  their detestable actions of every kind.


You have not bought me aromatic cane with silver, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me  with your iniquities.


Isaiah  said, ‘Listen, house of David! Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men? Will you also try the patience of my God?


There we were, binding sheaves of corn in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered round it and bowed down to my sheaf.’


They brought as their offering before the Lord six covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart from every two leaders and an ox from each one, and presented them in front of the tabernacle.


Can you trust the wild ox to harvest your corn and bring it to your threshing-floor?





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