“ Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. ”
Behold, I am pressed under you - God bore His people, as the wain bears the sheaves. “Ye yourselves have seen,” He said to them by Moses, “how I bare you on eagle’s wings, and brought you unto My...
Behold, I am (k) pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that is] full of sheaves. (k) You have wearied me with your sins; ( Isaiah 1:14 ).
The Sin and Doom of Israel. Suddenly the prophet turns and confronts Israel. The benighted heathen nations have sinned and must be punished. What of Israel, God's chosen people? Why, just because t...
as. cart . according as[a full] cart.
The verb עיק, oik, in Hebrew is often transitive, and it is also a neuter. This place then may admit of two interpretations. The first is, that God was pressed under the Israelites, as a wa...
DISCOURSE: 1185 GOD’S COMPLAINT AGAINST US Amos 2:13 . Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves . THE effect of long-continued provocations is to weary out o...
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. Behold, I am pressed under you - The marginal reading is better: "Behold, I will press your place, as a cart full of sh...
Behold, I am pressed under you— Behold, I will make a pressure under you, as a cart loaded with sheaves makes a pressure; —ver. 14. And flight shall, &c. REFLECTIONS.— 1st, God's controve...
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. I am pressed under you - so Calvin (cf. Isaiah 1:14 ). Margin translates actively, 'I will depress your place,'...
Israel's Sins and Ingratitude 6-8. Israel is now threatened in the same form as the rest, but Amos 2:6-16 were not spoken by Amos at Bethel; they form the conclusion of the preface which he wrot...
I am pressed . — Baur, Pusey, and Speaker’s Commentary support this rendering of the Heb. mç‘îq , the corresponding form in the next clause also being taken in the intransitive ( i.e., passive s...
ATROCITIES AND ATROCITIES Amos 1:3 - Amos 2:1-16 LIKE all the prophets of Israel, Amos receives oracles for foreign nations. Unlike them, however, he arranges these oracles not after, but bef...
neither Shall Israel Escape Amos 2:6-16 First the prophet enumerates Israel's sins. They were unjust to the poor, carrying their extortions to such lengths as to goad the poor to desperation. T...
Having thus uttered the word of God concerning the surrounding nations, thereby revealing the fact of His government over all, the prophet turned to Judah, and declared that she also was to share the...
The Lord having reckoned with all the neighboring nations, Israel's sworn foes, and having also begun with Judah, now takes in hand her sister Israel. And a solemn account it is. Chiefly beginning in...
Behold, I are pressed under you ,.... With the weight of their sins, with which they had made him to serve, and had wearied him; his patience was quite wore out, he could bear them no longer: as a...
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that is] full of sheaves. Ver. 13. Behold I am pressed under you, &c. ] A country comparison (such as this prophet is full of), plain, but...
Behold I am pressed under you Your sins have quite tired out my patience, and I am weary with bearing them: compare Isaiah 43:24 ; Malachi 2:17 . In this sense the clause is understood by the LXX...
God's Remonstrance with Israel. B. C. 790. 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them,...
Hitherto the Lord by the prophet had declared the sins of the kingdom of the ten tribes, now he is about to pronounce judgment against them; he calls for their attention, and diligent weighing what h...
YHWH's Judgment on Israel ( Amos 2:6-16 ). While this judgment on Israel certainly initially follows the previous sevenfold pattern it is distinctive in that it manifestly then goes on to break it...
CRITICAL NOTES . ] Amos 2:6 . Israel] The ten tribes the main object of the prophecy. First, prevalent crimes of injustice and oppression, shameless immorality, and daring contempt of God....
Amos 2:2 . Kirioth, a city of Moab, having palaces. Jeremiah 48:24 . Amos 2:6 . For three transgressions of Israel. This phrase, explained in Amos 1:3 , is repeated against five nations, mar...
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. --We go to-day to the gate of the harvest-field, to see the waggon piled up aloft with many sheaves come creaking fort...
EXPOSITION Amos 2:1-30 Judgment on Moab. Amos 2:1 Moab . The prophet now denounces the other nation connected by ties of blood with Israel (see on Amos 1:13 ). Moab's hostility had...
Against Israel
Ezekiel 16:43 ; Ezekiel 6:9 ; Isaiah 1:14 ; Isaiah 43:24 ; Isaiah 7:13 ; Malachi 2:17 ; Psalms 78:40
Under you — Under the load of your sins.