Albert Barnes Commentary Amos 9:2

"Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down." — Amos 9:2 (ASV)

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 hell, bury himself, the living among the dead, if by doing so he could escape the sight of God. But from there, God says, “My hand shall take them”, to place them in His presence, to receive their sentence. Or if, like the rebel angels, they could “place” their “throne amid the stars of God thence will I bring them down” (Isaiah 14:12–14), humbling, judging, condemning.