There we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field. All of a sudden, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf.”
Amos 2:13 - Tree of Life Version Behold! I will cause a tottering beneath you as a cart totters when 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. |
There we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field. All of a sudden, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf.”
Can you trust it to bring in your seed and gather it to your threshing floor?
How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert!
Your New Moons and your Festivals My soul hates! They are a burden to Me. I am weary to bear them.
You have not spent money buying Me aromatic cane, nor have you satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. Rather you burdened Me with your sins, wearied Me with your iniquities.
Then he said, “Hear now, house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men? Will you also weary my God?
“Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but have enraged Me in all these things, behold, I will also bring your way on your head”—it is a declaration of Adonai. “Have you not committed this wickedness on top of all your abominations?
The survivors will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I was crushed by their adulterous heart that has strayed from Me and their eyes which have lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils that they committed in all their abominations.
You wearied Adonai with your words. Yet you say: “How did we weary Him?” When you say: “Everyone doing evil is good in the sight of Adonai, and He delights in them.” Or, “Where is the God of justice?”
They brought as their gift before Adonai six covered carts and twelve oxen. A cart came from every two princes and an ox from each one of them. They presented them before the Tabernacle.