Amo 8:8, 9:5 | JFB | e4.org | 8. the land . . . rise up wholly as a flood —The land will, as it were, be wholly turned into a flooding river (a flood being the image of overwhelming calamity, ). cast out and drowned, &c.—swept away and overwhelmed, as the land adjoining the Nile is by it, when flooding ( ). The Nile rises generally twenty feet. The waters then "cast out" mire and dirt ( ).

‏ Amos 8:8

8. the land . . . rise up wholly as a flood—The land will, as it were, be wholly turned into a flooding river (a flood being the image of overwhelming calamity, Da 9:26).

cast out and drowned, &c.—swept away and overwhelmed, as the land adjoining the Nile is by it, when flooding (Am 9:5). The Nile rises generally twenty feet. The waters then "cast out" mire and dirt (Isa 57:20).

‏ Amos 9:5

5. As Amos had threatened that nowhere should the Israelites be safe from the divine judgments, he here shows God's omnipotent ability to execute His threats. So in the case of the threat in Am 8:8, God is here stated to be the first cause of the mourning of "all that dwell" in the land, and of its rising "like a flood, and of its being "drowned, as by the flood of Egypt."