Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 2:13

13 Behold , I am pressed under you as a card is pressed that is full of sheaves .

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 he is about to speak.

The Lord who have so multiplyed mercies to this people;

some read this passage actively, and make this the sense, I will load you with these judgments as a Cart is loaded, and you shall cry and groan under these judgments, as a Cart heavy-loaded makes a noise in its motion under such pressures.

Perhaps sheaves, the loading of a Harvest season, are mentioned to intimate the ripeness of their sins, and Gods reaping them, or cutting them down by his judgments, and carrying them together to be threshed by further judgments.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 span]