John Trapp on Amos 9:3

Verſe 3. And though they hide themſelves in the top of Carmel] In denſis ſylvis, inter ſpelaea ferarum, Lawfull enough it is in ſome caſes to hides David did oft, and Elias, and Chriſt, and Paul, 2 Cor. 11.32. and Athanaſius, and diverſe other Saints. Tertullian was too rigid in condemning all kind of hiding in evill times.Lib. de ſuga on perſecution. But to hide from God, who ſearcheth Jeruſalem with lights, and to whom the darkneſſe and the light are both alike, Pſal. 139.12. to whom obſcura clarent, muta reſpondent, ſilentium confitetur, this is baſe, and bootleſſe. Carmel ſhall not cover them, nor any other ſtarting-hole ſecure them from divine juſtice. The poore Jewes were pulled by the Romanes out of privyes and other under-ground places, where they had hid themſelvss, as Joſephus writeth: and ſo were thoſe Samaritans ſerved by the Aſſyrians, who ferreted them out, and ſlaughtered them.

and though they be hid from my ſight,] as they think; but that cannot be: for He (like the Optick vertue in the eye) ſees all, and is ſeen of none.

in the bottome of the ſea,] which, how deep and troubleſome ſoever, is to God a Sea of glaſſe like unto Chryſtal: corpus diaphanum, a pervious, clear,Rev. 4. tranſparent body, ſuch as he ſees thorow, and hath the ſole command of.

thence will I command the ſerpent. For there is that crooked ſerpent Leviathan, there are alſo creeping things innumerable, Eſay 27.1. Pſal. 104.26. to arreſt wicked men as rebels and traitors to the higheſt Majeſtie, and to drag them down to the bottom of hell. All elements, and creatures, ſhall draw upon them, as ſervants will do upon ſuch as aſſault their Lord. Rebelliſque facta eſt, quia homo numini, creatura homini, as Auſtin truely and trimly avoucheth.