Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look! I [am] going to press [you] down in your place just as a utility cart full of mature stalks of grain [is pressed down].
New American Standard Bible
As a wagon
King James Version
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
Holman Bible
as a wagon full of sheaves crushes grain.
International Standard Version
"Oh, how I am burdened down with you, as a wagon is overloaded with harvested grain!
A Conservative Version
Behold, I will press [you] in your place, as a cart presses that is full of sheaves.
American Standard Version
Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
Amplified
“Behold, I am weighted down beneath you
As a cart that is weighted down when it is full of sheaves.
Bible in Basic English
See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.
Darby Translation
Behold, I will press upon you, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, I am pressed under you as a wagon will be pressed being filled with the sheaf to it
King James 2000
Behold, I am weighted down under you, as a cart is weighted down that is full of sheaves.
Modern King James verseion
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart full of sheaves is pressed.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, I will crash you in sunder, like as a wain crasheth, that is full of sheaves:
NET Bible
Look! I will press you down, like a cart loaded down with grain presses down.
New Heart English Bible
Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! I, am pressed under you, - as a full cart is pressed by its sheaves,
Webster
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
World English Bible
Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, I am pressing you under, As the full cart doth press for itself a sheaf.
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 2:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judgment On Israel
12 But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets, saying, 'You shall not prophesy.' 13 Look! I [am] going to press [you] down in your place just as a utility cart full of mature stalks of grain [is pressed down]. 14 Flight will perish from [the] swift and [the] strong person will not muster his strength and [the] warrior will not save his life.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 1:14
Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become to me like burden, I am not able to bear [them].
Psalm 78:40
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in [the] wasteland!
Isaiah 7:13
Then he said, "Hear, house of David! [Is it] too little for you to make men weary, that you should also make my God weary?
Isaiah 43:24
You have not bought me spice reed with money or satisfied me [with] the fat of sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have made me weary with your iniquities.
Ezekiel 6:9
And your fugitives will remember me among the nations [to] which they were taken captive, that I was shattered by {their adulterous heart} which departed from me, and by {their adulterous eyes} which [went] after their idols, and they will feel loathing {for themselves}, for the evil that they did, for all of their detestable things.
Ezekiel 16:43
{Because} you did not remember the days of your childhood and you made me angry with all of these. And in turn I, look, I will return your way upon [your] head,' {declares} the Lord Yahweh, 'and did you not [do] wickedness in addition to all of your detestable things?
Malachi 2:17
You have wearied Yahweh with your words, but you ask, "With what have we wearied [him]?" [You have done so] {when you say}, "Everyone who does evil [is] good in the {sight} of Yahweh, and in them he delights," or "Where [is] the God of justice?"