Amos 8:8
Shall not the land tremble because of this, and everyone who lives there mourn? The earth will rise up like the Nile River in flood, be tossed around, and then fall again.
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Psalms 18:7The earth shook to and fro; the foundations of the mountains trembled, shaking because of his anger.
Psalms 114:3The Red Sea saw them and ran away; the Jordan River retreated.
Isaiah 8:7the Lord is going to bring the powerful floodwaters of the Euphrates River against them—the king of Assyria with all his glorious army. It will flood all its channels and overflow all its banks.
Jeremiah 4:24I looked at the mountains, and saw that they were shaking; all the hills were swaying to and fro.
Jeremiah 46:8Egypt is rising like the Nile; its waters swirl like flooding rivers, boasting, “I will rise and sweep over the earth; I will destroy towns and the people in them.”
Hosea 4:3As a result the land dries up, and everyone who lives there is wasting away, along with the wild animals and the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea—they are all dying.
Matthew Henry on Amos 8:5-11
The Sin and Doom of Oppressors. ( b. c. 785.) 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget… Read the whole commentary →