Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.
Parallel translations
- WEB Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
- KJV Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
- NKJV “Behold,I am weighed down by you, As a cart full of sheaves is weighed down.
- NASB “Behold, I am making a rut in the ground beneath you, Just as a wagon makes a rut when filled with sheaves.
- NLT “So I will make you groan like a wagon loaded down with sheaves of grain.
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Quick answer
God declares he will crush Israel as a loaded cart presses down. The weight of their sin brings inescapable judgment.
Overview
The image of a heavy, grain-laden cart conveys a crushing, grinding pressure upon the people. Some translate this as God being burdened by their sin; either way, judgment is heavy and certain. This begins a list of how no one will escape. The picture warns that persistent, unrepented sin leads to ruin under the hand of God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Isa 1:14I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
- Mal 2:17You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”
- Ps 78:40How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
- Ezek 16:43Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?
- Isa 7:13Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?
- Isa 43:24You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
- Ezek 6:9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
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Amid judgment on injustice, Amos promises the raising up of David's fallen tent — read by James in Acts 15 as the ingathering of the nations into the kingdom of the risen Christ.
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