Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 9:2

2 Though they dig into hell , thence shall mine hand take them : though they climb up to heaven , thence will I bring them down .

The deepest recesses, the heart and center of the Earth or the Grave, or literally, for so we may lay the supposition, were it possible to be done to hide in the center of the Earth, or the depth of Hell

For Hell is naked to God, and the Grave did not hide some of these sinners, when dead and buried, the rage of Famine, or of the Enemy might dig some out of their Graves.

Could they fly up to Heaven, they would be out of the reach of men:

But there they would meet an offended God, and he would cast them down.

When David would describe the omnipresence of God, Psal. 139.7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. he doth it most elegantly in almost the same manner as our inspired Herdman here doth, wherever these seek to hide themselves from the pursuing vengeance they shall be found, he is with them, from whom they hide.

Marginal references: Job 20.6. Jer. 51.53. Obad. 4.