John Trapp on Amos 9:5

Verſe 5. And the Lord God of Hoſts is he, &c.] Here the Prophet proveth what he had ſaid in the foregoing verſes, by an argument drawn from the wonderfull power of God, which profane perſons are apt to queſtion, that they may harden their hearts againſt his fear. Conſider ſaith He, firſt, that He is the Lord God of Hoſts, and (as the Rabbines well obſerve) he hath the upper and lower troops ready preſt, as his horſe and foot, to march againſt his enemies. Next, that he toucheth the land, as it were with his little finger, and it ſhall melt, like the fat of lambs before the fire: it ſhall crumble to crattle, moulder away, and be moved, becauſe he is wroth, Pſal. 18.7. and ſhall men be unmoved? ſhall they bee more inſenſible then the ſenſeleſſe earth? The people of Antioch, though many of them gave their hands for Chryſoſtoms baniſhment, yet terrified by an earthquake (which wrought in them an heart-quake, as it had done in the Gaoler, Acts 16.) they immediately ſent for him again. But thirdly, the tremend power of God appears in this, that

The land ſhall riſe up wholly like a flood, and it ſhall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt,] God can flote it, and flood it at his pleaſure. See chap. 8.8. Water is naturally above the earth, as the garment above the body ſaith David: and would (but for the power and providence of God) prove as the ſhirt made for the murdering of Agamemnon, where the head had no iſſue out. Let God be ſeen herein, and mens hearts poſſeſſed with his holy fear: who can ſo eaſily pull up the ſluces, let in the Sea upon them, and bury them all in one univerſall grave of waters. Fear ye not me, Jer. 5.22. ſaith the Lord? will ye not tremble at my preſence, which have placed the ſand for the bound of the Sea, by a perpetuall decree, that it cannot paſſe it: and though the waves thereof toſſe themſelves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, Lib. de mirabil. yet can they not paſſe over it? This Ariſtotle admires, and David celebrates in his Phyſicks, (as One calleth that 104 Pſalm) verſe 6.9. and all men ſhould improve, to affright their conſciences from provoking to anger ſo great a God.