Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 9:5

5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land , and it shall melt , and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood, and shall be drowned as by the flood of Egypt.

Adonai the Soveraign Lord,

Iehovah who speaks and doth, and need no more than will to work and accomplish; so he made, sustaineth, and disposeth of all.

All the Cre[illegible: 1 letter]tures are his Army, and do what he commands them to do against his Enemies

a light touch of his hand, he needs not as man to take great pains to break and dissolve hard mettals▪ a touch of his finger will do this.

Either the Inhabitants, or rather the Land it self in which they dwelt, the Land of Canaan, or more likely the whole Earth how firm, and hard soever it seem to be.

As snow before the Sun in its hottest influences, or as wax before a mighty fire, who can do this, can do all that I have denounced against you oh Israel. The rest of the ver. vid. cap. 8. ver. 8. let. r. s. t. u. x.

The Prophet having foretold such sad, universal desolations, miseries beyond what this secure people could think possible, and such as the Atheists among them censur'd, and derided as impossibilities, as ver. 10. now in this and the following verses to the 10th, the Prophet confirms his word, and the certainty of these future judgments.