Amos 9:1-6

9:1

saw <07200> [I saw.]

altar <04196> [upon.]

Strike <05221> [Smite.]

tops of the support pillars <03730> [lintel. or, chapiter, or knop. cut them. or, wound them. in the head.]

run away <05127> [shall not flee.]

9:2

dig ........... up ........ climb up <02864 05927> [Though.]

All these energetic expressions were intended to shew the utter impossibility of escape.

dig <02864> [dig.]

up ........ climb up <05927> [climb.]

9:3

hide <02244> [hide.]

hide <05641> [hid.]

Sea Serpent <05175> [the serpent.]

9:4

<03212> [go.]

I .... let <07760> [set.]

9:5

touches <05060> [toucheth.]

live <03427> [and all.]

rises <05927> [shall rise.]

9:6

builds <01129> [buildeth.]

upper rooms <04609> [stories. or, spheres. Heb. ascensions.]

{M„ƒloth,} "upper chambers," which in eastern houses are the principal apartments. Perhaps there is a reference here to the various systems which God has created in illimitable space, transcending each other as the planets do in our system.

supports <092> [troop. or, bundle.]

{Aguddah} probably is the same as the Arabic {ijad,} "an arch, vault," and may here denote the vault of heaven, or atmosphere, which God "hath founded, or established, upon, or over, {Æ’l,} the earth," and into which "he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth."

summons <07121> [calleth.]

Lord <03068> [The Lord.]