John Trapp on Amos 2:3

Verſe 3. And I will cut off the Iudge,] i. e. the king, who ſometimes ſits himſelf in Judgement,Acts & Mon. as K. Hen. 8. did here, at the condemnation of Lambert Martyr: as the King of Perſia doth oft at this day.The Preachers Travels. 63. I have ſeen him (ſaith a traveller) many times to alight from his horſe, onely to do juſtice to a poor body. The Grand Signior himſelf ſits one day in the week to receive the poors petitions, and puniſh the faulty Grandees about him. For as he ſtiles himſelf, Awlem Pe[illegible: 1 letter]awh, that is, the worlds refuge: ſo he would have the world to take notice, that ſuch as lament unto him,The Grand Sign. Serag. pag. 148. ſhall be ſure to have redreſſe and ſuccour from him, although his Miniſters fail them, or abuſe them, through their injuſtice: Hence, few Viſiers die in their beds.

from the middeſt thereof.] i. e. of Kerioth, the chief city where the Court was kept, as Kimch[illegible: 1 letter] ſaith, with a great deal of pomp and pride. We have heard of the pride of Moab. See Ier. 48.7, 11, 14, 18. Zeph. 2.8, 10. It was their nationall ſin, and fore-runner of their fall.