Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 7:4

4 ¶ Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me, and behold , the Lord GOD called to contend by fire , and it devoured the great deep , and did eat up a part .

In Vision or Hieroglyphic, Vid. ver. 1. let. b.

Vid. ver. 1. let. c.

Declar'd he would judge as by fire.

Literally say some, God would from Heaven by fire punish. Others say metaphorically, by drought which should scorch up all fruits of the Earth, and dry up Fountains and Rivers. Or else by very sore, wasting, and irresistable judgments that like Fire should consume all, hereby denoting the Assyrian rage.

Eat up, i. e. Visionally, or in the Emblem.

Not literally, but as the other, ver. 2. in Hieroglyphic. So it appear'd to Amos.

Of the Land too, it seem'd to sieze on the Earth; now this in vision awakens the Prophet as before to pray earnestly.