Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, And turns the shadow of death into the morning, And makes the day dark with night; Who calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
That calleth for the waters of the sea - This can be no other than a memory of the flood, “when the waters prevailed over the earth Genesis 7:24. The prophet speaks of nothing partial. He speaks of “sea” and “earth,” each, as a whole, standing against the other. “God calleth the waters of the sea and poureth them over the face of the earth.” They seem ever threatening the land, but for Him “which hath placed the sand for the bound of the sea, that it cannot pass it” Jeremiah 5:22. Now God calls them, and “pours them over the face,” that is, the whole surface. The flood, He promised, should not again be. But it is the image of that universal destruction, which shall end man’s thousands of years of rebellion against God. The words then of Amos, in their simplest sense, speak of a future universal judgment of the inhabitants of the earth, like, in extent, to that former judgment, when God “brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly” 2 Peter 2:5.