Amos 6:11

For behold, &c. The words give the reason for Amos 6:8, rather than for Amos 6:9, which describe merely an episode in the ruin.

commandeth viz. the human agents, by whose instrumentality (cf. Isaiah 10:6) He carries out His will. Who these agents are conceived by Amos to be will appear in Amos 6:14.

the great house into fragments and the little house into clefts Neither the palaces of the wealthy, nor the more modest dwellings of the ordinary citizens, will escape the coming ruin.