John Trapp on Amos 9:2

Verſe 2. Though they dig into hell, &c.] No ſtarting-hole ſhall ſecure them from the wrath of God, and rage of the creature, ſet a work by him. Hell and deſtruction are before the Lord, Prov, 15.11. yea hell is naked before him, and deſtruction hath no covering, Job 25.6. He hath a ſharp eye, and a long hand, to pull men out of their lurking-holes; as he did Adam out of the thicket,2 Chro. 33.11 Manaſſeh from among the thornes, Jonah from the ſides of the ſhip, the Duke of Buckingham in Rich. the thirds time, &c. Be ſure, ſaith Moſes, your ſinne will finde you out, Speed. Num. 32.23. and Gods hand will hale you to puniſhment.

Though they climb up to heaven,] That is, (by an hyperbole) to high and ſtrong places: as the Babel-builders, the Benjamites that fled to the Rock Rimmon, and there abode four moneths, Judg. 20 47. the gibing Jebuſites, that were ſo confident of their ſtrong-hold of Zion, that they flouted David and his forces, 2 Sam. 5.8. the proud Prince of Tyre, and others.

thence will I bring them down] From their loftieſt tops of Pride and creature-confidence which God loves to confute and defeat: as I might inſtance in Nebuchadnezzars, Xerxes, Haman, Sejanus, Bajaezet, that terrour of the world, and (as he thought) ſuperior to fortune, yet in an inſtant, with his ſtate, in one battle overthrown into the bottome of miſery and deſpaire:Turk. hiſt. 287. and that in the middeſt of his great ſtrength. The ſame end awaits the Pope and his hierarchy-ruet alto à culmine Roma, that Jupiter Capitolinus ſhall be one day unrooſted by him, who caſteth the wicked down to the ground Pſal. 147.6.