John Trapp on Amos 6:11

Verſe 11. For behold the Lord commandeth] Calamities, and they come: the Chaldeans, and they are at hand with their battel-axes, but it is he that gives them their commiſſion, and biddeth them Fall on.

and he will ſmite the great houſe with breaches &c] i. e.aequo pulſat pede &c. he will deſtroy rich and poor together; pale death will knock at both their houſes with an even foot, as in time of plague, earthquake or the like Epidemicall evill. The grave is the Congregation houſe of all living Iob. 30.23. whereinto men chop oft before they think: as a man that walks in the ſnow may into a marle-pit. The mortall ſcyth is maſter of the royall ſcepter: and it mowes down the lillies of the crown, as well as the graſs of the field. Death is the onely king againſt whom there is no riſing up, as Augur phraſeth the moſt abſolute predominance Prov. 30.31. it levelleth Lords and Loſels, and layes all waſt: breaking down the greater houſes and cleaving the leſſer, with an utter extermination of all. Search you therefore, ſearch you, O nation not deſired; before the decree come forth &c. Zeph. 2.1, 2. After-wit here helps not: repentance, though true may come too late in reſpect of temporall judgements, as in Moſes Deut. 1.37. and David 2 Sam. 12.10.