Behold, I am pressed under you - God bore His people, as the wagon bears the sheaves. “You yourselves have seen,” He said to them b…

I am pressed.—Baur, Pusey, and the Speaker’s Commentary support this rendering of the Hebrew mç‘îq, with the cor…

The verb עיק, oik, in Hebrew is often transitive, and it is also a neuter. This passage then may allow for two interpretations. The first …

Behold, I am pressed under you. With the weight of their sins, with which they had made him serve, and had wearied him; his patienc…

We often need to be reminded of the mercies we have received, as these greatly add to the evil of the sins we have committed. They had spiritual pr…