Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 5:19

19 As if a man did flee from a lyon, and a bear met him ; or went into the house , and leaned his hand on the wall , and a serpent bit him .

Here Proverbially is exprest the continuance and succession of evils one after another; it will be a long calamity when your civil dissensions waste you first, next Gods Armies of Locusts and Palmer-worms, and the Assyrians too, until all ends in final Captivity; you may escape one, but shall fall into another calamity, and worse then that you escaped; abroad your miseries shall be like a Lyon or Bear.

At home you may hope for safety from such open dangers, but there other kind of mischief shall meet you.

Weary and faint shall think to ease and support himself.

Whose biting infuseth a deadly poyson, which suddenly corrupts the whole mass of blood, and kills the man. If Conspirators at home be Lyons, the Assyrians will be as [illegible: 1 letter]ears to you.

Marginal references: Jer. 48.44.