Amos 9:3
If they go to the top of Carmel Mountain to escape, I will search for them and seize them. If they try to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, I will command the huge sea monster to bite them.
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Job 22:13So why do you say, ‘What does God know about what we are doing? He is hidden from us by dark clouds, so ◄ how can he judge us?/he certainly cannot judge us.► [RHQ]’
Psalms 68:23I will do that in order that you may wash your feet in their blood, and your dogs can also lap up some of your enemies’ blood.”
Psalms 139:10you would be there also, to lead me by your hand, and you would help me.
Jeremiah 16:16But now I am summoning your enemies who will seize the people of Judah like [MET] fishermen catch fish. I am summoning those who will search for them on every mountain and hill, and in every cave, like [MET] hunters search for animals to kill.
Jeremiah 23:24So, no one can hide in some secret place with the result that I cannot see him. I am everywhere, in heaven and on the earth! That is what I, Yahweh, say!
Matthew Henry on Amos 9:2-11
The Certainty of the Sinner's Doom. ( b. c. 784.) 1 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of… Read the whole commentary →