for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.*
Amos 2:13 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, I am pressed under you and I will press you down in your place as a cart presses that is full of sheaves. American Standard Version (1901) Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves. Common English Bible So now I will oppress you, just like a cart is weighed down when it is full of harvested grain. Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, I will creak under you, just as a wagon creaks that is laden with hay. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay. |
for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.*
Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.
He said, *Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord GOD: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'
and they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented them before the tabernacle.