For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and bowed down to my sheaf.
Amos 2:13 - King James 2000 Behold, I am weighted down under you, as a cart is weighted down that is full of sheaves. 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, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and bowed down to my sheaf.
Will you believe him, that he will bring home your grain, and gather it into your barn?
How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.
You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have made me to serve with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.
And he said, Hear you now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?
Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense your way upon your head, says the Lord GOD: and you shall not commit this lewdness in addition to all your abominations.
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their adulterous heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the harlot after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves 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? When you say, Every one that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the leaders, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.