‏ Amos 9:5-6

toucheth Ps 46:6, Ps 144:5; Isa 64:1; Mic 1:3; Nah 1:6; Hab 3:10; Rev 20:11

and all Amos 8:8; Jer 12:4; Hos 4:3

shall rise Ps 32:6, Ps 93:3-4; Isa 8:7-8; Matt 7:27

buildeth Ps 104:3, Ps 104:13

stories or, spheres, Heb. ascensions, Maaloth "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.

troop or, bundle, Gen 2:1 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, al the earth," and into which "he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth."

calleth Amos 5:8; Gen 7:11-19; Jer 5:22

The Lord Amos 4:13; Exod 3:14-15

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