Bible Strands
Amos 2:13
Behold, I am about to crush you in your place as with a cart full of grain.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses Israel through the prophet Amos immediately after listing their violations of the Nazirite vow and the prophetic mandate. The declaration functions as a judicial pronouncement at the climax of the prophet’s indictment, positioned directly before the description of failed military escape.
The words — The Hebrew מֵעִ֖יק (me.'Ik) and תָּעִיק֙ (ta.'Ik) share the root sense of "to make totter" or "press down." The text uses these verbs to describe Yahweh’s action of crushing the people beneath a full cart.
The thread — The motif of divine burden appears in Isaiah 1:14, where God states that Israel’s appointed feasts have become a wearying load. The pattern of provoking divine grief through repeated disobedience is recorded in Psalm 78:40.
Why it lands — The text states that covenant violation triggers an inescapable, crushing pressure that operates on the people in their own location. It requires the reader to acknowledge that human strength and flight will not avert the stated consequence.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 1:14 I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
- Psalms 78:40 How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
- Isaiah 7:13 Then 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?
- Isaiah 43:24 You 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.
- Ezekiel 6:9 Then 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.
- Ezekiel 16:43 Because 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?
- Malachi 2:17 You 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?”