Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 9:6

6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth, he that calleth for the waters of the sea , and poureth them out upon the face of the earth : the LORD is his Name .

He that threatens and will execute his just severities on you is that mighty, glorious King,

whose Palace inconceivably surpasseth all the Royal Palaces of the mightiest Monarchs on Earth; his Chambers as Psal. 104.3. are in the Heavens; he by a word of his mouth prepared, and garnisht those Rooms of State, where is Glory that ravisheth the mighty Angels, how easily can he demolish and ruine your Cells, and with the breath of his nostrils by one command, blow away and scatter your little dust heaps, which you call Cities, fortresses, and impregnable munitions?

He laid the foundations of this lower world, and can as easily shake, or overturn as at first he laid them.

All that is below the Royal pavilions of God are but as a little bundle which he can soon unty and scatter about, nor are the things tied up of such worth and value that he should lose by doing it, how much more easie is it for him to destroy (as he hath spoken) your land and Cities which are a very small thing compared with the whole World, and this as a point, compared with the unmeasurable greatness of the Heavens. You set a value on your selves, and are proud, and think that God will not lose such Jewels, as if a king in his Royalty should fear to lose a pins head, or one atome of dust that lyeth on his Foot-stool.

The easiest way a man can take to get any thing done, nothing so easie for man to do, as 'tis easie for God to drown a sinful Nation or World; possibly God by this may mind them what seeming impossibility he did when he called for the Waters of the Sea to drown the old World, and would hereby make them see that he can now do the like:

Either by wholesale in judgment to drown, or by retale by vapours in mercy to give rain.

In storms and violence, or in gentler showers to punish or refresh.

Either particular Nation, or the whole World.

Eternal, Unchangeable, Almighty and Just. Vid. chap. 5. ver. 8. let. r. s. t.

Marginal references: Or, sphears.; Heb. ascensions.; Or, bundle.