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Amos 2:13

New American Bible - revised edition

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

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There we were, binding sheaves in the field, when suddenly my sheaf rose to an upright position, and your sheaves formed a ring around my sheaf and bowed down to it.”

Can you rely on him to bring in your grain and gather in the yield of your threshing floor?

How often they rebelled against God in the wilderness, grieved him in the wasteland.

Your new moons and festivals I detest; they weigh me down, I tire of the load.

You did not buy me sweet cane, nor did you fill me with the fat of your sacrifices; Instead, you burdened me with your sins, wearied me with your crimes.

Then he said: Listen, house of David! Is it not enough that you weary human beings? Must you also weary my God?

Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, see, I am bringing down your ways upon your head—oracle of the Lord God. Have you not added depravity to your other abominations?

Then your refugees will remember me among the nations to which they have been exiled, after I have broken their lusting hearts that turned away from me and their eyes that lusted after idols. They will loathe themselves for all the evil they have done, for all their abominations.

You have wearied the Lord with your words, yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “All evildoers are good in the sight of the Lord, And he is pleased with them,” or “Where is the just God?”

The offering they brought before the Lord consisted of six wagons for baggage and twelve oxen, that is, a wagon for every two tribal leaders, and an ox for each. These they presented before the tabernacle.




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