Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
Parallel translations
- WEB Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
- BSB Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.
- 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
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- Isa 1:14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
- Mal 2:17Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
- Ps 78:40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
- Ezek 16:43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
- Isa 7:13And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
- Isa 43:24Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
- Ezek 6:9And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in 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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