Amos 2:13
Look! I will press you down, like a cart loaded down with grain presses down.
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- Isa 1:14 : 14 I hate your new moon festivals and assemblies; they are a burden that I am tired of carrying.
- Isa 7:13 : 13 So Isaiah replied,“Pay attention, family of David. Do you consider it too insignificant to try the patience of men? Is that why you are also trying the patience of my God?
- Isa 43:24 : 24 You did not buy me aromatic reeds; you did not present to me the fat of your sacrifices. Yet you burdened me with your sins; you made me weary with your evil deeds.
- Ezek 6:9 : 9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize how I was crushed by their unfaithful heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.
- Ezek 16:43 : 43 “‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, declares the Sovereign LORD. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?
- Mal 2:17 : 17 Resistance to the Lord through Self-deceit You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say,“How have we wearied him?” Because you say,“Everyone who does evil is good in the LORD’s opinion, and he delights in them,” or“Where is the God of justice?”
- Ps 78:40 : 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!
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28Grain is crushed, though one certainly does not thresh it forever. The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it.
- Isa 22:17-193 verses72%
17Look, the LORD will throw you far away, you mere man! He will wrap you up tightly.
18He will wind you up tightly into a ball and throw you into a wide, open land. There you will die, and there with you will be your impressive chariots, which bring disgrace to the house of your master.
19I will remove you from your office; you will be thrown down from your position.
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23I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you,‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’ You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you.”
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13Rush forth with the sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Come, stomp the grapes, for the winepress is full! The vats overflow. Indeed, their evil is great!
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7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!
- Isa 46:1-22 verses71%
1The Lord Carries His People Bel kneels down, Nebo bends low. Their images weigh down animals and beasts. Your heavy images are burdensome to tired animals.
2Together they bend low and kneel down; they are unable to rescue the images; they themselves head off into captivity.
- Mic 6:14-152 verses71%
14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.
15You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.
- Lam 1:14-152 verses71%
14נ(Nun) My sins are bound around my neck like a yoke; they are fastened together by his hand. He has placed his yoke on my neck; he has sapped my strength. The Lord has handed me over to those whom I cannot resist.
15ס(Samek) He rounded up all my mighty ones; The Lord did this in my midst. He summoned an assembly against me to shatter my young men. The Lord has stomped like grapes the virgin daughter, Judah.
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12“But you made the Nazirites drink wine; you commanded the prophets,‘Do not prophesy!’
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11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.
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2Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.
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15“Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw.
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13The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
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10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
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11Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.
- Hos 10:10-112 verses69%
10When I please, I will discipline them; I will gather nations together to attack them, to bind them in chains for their two sins.
11Fertility Imagery: Plowing, Sowing, and Reaping Ephraim was a well-trained heifer who loved to thresh grain; I myself put a fine yoke on her neck. I will harness Ephraim. Let Judah plow! Let Jacob break up the unplowed ground for himself!
- Nah 1:12-132 verses69%
12Oracle of Deliverance to Judah This is what the LORD says:“Even though they are powerful– and what is more, even though their army is numerous– nevertheless, they will be destroyed and trickle away! Although I afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
13And now, I will break Assyria’s yoke bar from your neck; I will tear apart the shackles that are on you.”
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18Beware, those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.
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27And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.
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5Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land.
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11You too will act like drunkards; you will go into hiding; you too will seek refuge from the enemy.
- Hag 2:16-172 verses69%
16From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.
17I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ says the LORD.
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17But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.
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5It will be as when one gathers the grain harvest, and his hand gleans the ear of grain. It will be like one gathering the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
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21What will you say when the LORD appoints as rulers over you those allies that you, yourself, had actually prepared as such? Then anguish and agony will grip you like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.
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25Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?
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27And your raised offering will be credited to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine from the winepress.
- Amos 6:12-132 verses69%
12Can horses run on rocky cliffs? Can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into a poisonous plant, and the fruit of righteous actions into a bitter plant.
13You are happy because you conquered Lo-Debar. You say,“Did we not conquer Karnaim by our own power?”
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11They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty.
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1Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria! You oppress the poor; you crush the needy. You say to your husbands,“Bring us more to drink!”
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17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.
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12But they do not know what the LORD is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.
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20Your children faint; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a snare. They are left in a stupor by the LORD’s anger, by the battle cry of your God.
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43I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay in the streets.
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8Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.
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9This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies said to me:“Those who remain in Israel will be like the grapes thoroughly gleaned from a vine. So go over them again, as though you were a grape harvester passing your hand over the branches one last time.”
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12But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?
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33As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.
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13But you have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your chariots; you have relied on your many warriors.
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13Then tell them,‘The LORD says,“I will soon fill all the people who live in this land with stupor. I will also fill the kings from David’s dynasty, the priests, the prophets, and the citizens of Jerusalem with stupor.
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27Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.