Height or depth are alike open to the Omnipresent God. The grave is not so awful as God.

The sinner would gladly “dig through” into…

Dig. —For this expression break should be substituted. “Hell,” or rather, Hades (Sheôl), the dark abode…

Here the Prophet denounces horrible punishments, but not without reason, for there was astonishing lethargy in that people, as there usually is in …

Though they dig into hell, from there shall my hand take them, &c.] That is, they that endeavour to make their escape…

The prophet, in vision, saw the Lord standing upon the idolatrous altar at Bethel. Wherever sinners flee from God's justice, it will overtake them.…