Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
the land . . . rise up wholly as a flood—The land will, as it were, be wholly turned into a flooding river (a flood being the image of overwhelming calamity, Daniel 9:26).
cast out and drowned, etc.—swept away and overwhelmed, as the land adjoining the Nile is by it, when flooding (Amos 9:5). The Nile rises generally twenty feet. The waters then "cast out" mire and dirt (Isaiah 57:20).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Amos 8:8:
Amos 8:1
Amos 9:5
Zechariah 10:11
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