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Amos 2:13

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13

Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

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EXPLANATION

Verse 13. I will screek. Unable to bear any longer the enormous load of your sins, and so forth The Spirit of God, as S. Jerom takes notice, accommodates itself to the education of the prophet, and inspires him with encouragements taken from country affairs. Challoner.—Septuagint “I am overturned.” Hebrew “pressed.” Calmet.

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“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.

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