The land — The people of it. For this — This that you have done, and this that God will do. And it — The judgment, the displeasure of God, shall rise and grow like a mighty wasting flood. It — The land. Drowned — As Egypt by the overflowing of the Nile.
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Amos 8:8
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.