11 For the Lord has given the command, and he will smash the great house into pieces and the small house into bits.
11 For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches,
11 For behold, the Lord commands, and the great house shall be struck down into fragments, and the little house into bits.
11 Note well: God issues the orders. He'll knock large houses to smithereens. He'll smash little houses to bits.
11 For behold, the Lord gives a command: He will break the great house into bits, And the little house into pieces.
11 When the Lord gives the command, homes both great and small will be smashed to pieces.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Amos 6:11
Commentary on Amos 6:8-14
(Read Amos 6:8-14)
How dreadful, how miserable, is the case of those whose eternal ruin the Lord himself has sworn; for he can execute his purpose, and none can alter it! Those hearts are wretchedly hardened that will not be brought to mention God's name, and to worship him, when the hand of God is gone out against them, when sickness and death are in their families. Those that will not be tilled as fields, shall be abandoned as rocks. When our services of God are soured with sin, his providences will justly be made bitter to us. Men should take warning not to harden their hearts, for those who walk in pride, God will destroy.