Amos 9:6

Amos 9:6

4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies,
From there ^aI will command the sword,
And it shall slay them.
^bI will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”

5 The Lord God of hosts,
He who touches the earth and it ^amelts,
^bAnd all who dwell there mourn;
All of it shall swell like¹ the River,
And subside like the River of Egypt.

6 He who builds His ^alayers in the sky,
And has founded His strata in the earth;
Who ^bcalls for the waters of the sea,
And pours them out on the face of the earth—
^cThe Lord is His name.

7 “Are you not like the¹ people of Ethiopia to Me,
O children of Israel?” says the Lord.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
The ^aPhilistines from ^bCaphtor,
And the Syrians from ^cKir?

8 “Behold, ^athe eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I ^bwill destroy it from the face of the earth;
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Buildeth his stories in the heaven - There is here an allusion to large houses, where there are cellars, or places dug in the ground as repositories for corn; middle apartments, or stories, for the families to live in; and the house-top for persons to take the air upon. There may be here a reference to the various systems which God has formed in illimitable space, transcending each other, as the planets do in our solar system: and thus we find Solomon speaking when addressing the Most High: "The heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, hashshamayim ushemey hashshamayim , I Kings 8:27. Six heavens are necessarily implied in these three words. According to the points, the first and third are in the dual number, and the second is the contracted form of the plural. But how many more spheres may be intended who can tell? There may be millions of millions of stellar systems in unlimited space; and then what are all these to the Vast Immensity of God!

Hath founded his troop in the earth - aguddatho , from agad , to bind or gather together, possibly meaning the seas and other collections of waters which he has gathered together and bound by his perpetual decree, that they cannot pass; yet when he calleth for these very waters, as in the general deluge, he "poureth them out upon the face of the earth."

The Lord is his name - This points out his infinite essence. But what is that essence? and what is his nature? and what his immensity and eternity? What archangel can tell?

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