Amo 8:8 | JFB | STEP | 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 (Is 57:20).