Amos 3:4

American Standard Version (1901)

Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:21 : 21 The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God.
  • Hos 11:10 : 10 They shall walk after Jehovah, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west.
  • Amos 1:2 : 2 And he said, Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
  • Amos 3:8 : 8 The lion hath roared; who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken; who can but prophesy?
  • Hos 5:14 : 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.

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    39Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

    40When they couch in their dens, [And] abide in the covert to lie in wait?

    41Who provideth for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry unto God, [And] wander for lack of food?

  • Nah 2:11-12
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    11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion [and] the lioness walked, the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

    12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.

  • Amos 3:5
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    5Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is [set] for him? shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?

  • Job 4:10-11
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    10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

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  • Ps 104:21
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    21The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God.

  • Job 28:8
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    8The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.

  • Isa 5:29
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    29their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.

  • Prov 30:30-31
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    76%

    30The lion, which is mightiest among beasts, And turneth not away for any;

    31The greyhound; The he-goat also; And the king against whom there is no rising up.

  • Amos 3:8
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    8The lion hath roared; who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken; who can but prophesy?

  • Ps 17:12
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    12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, And as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Jer 2:15
    73%

    15The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  • Ps 34:10
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    10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.

  • Num 23:24
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    24Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain.

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    5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?

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    3Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • Jer 25:38
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    38He hath left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

  • Ps 7:2
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    2Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

  • Ezek 19:5-7
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    5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

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    7And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.

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    9He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.

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    6For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.

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    4For thus saith Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.

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    10They shall walk after Jehovah, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west.

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    38They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.

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    2and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.

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    7Therefore am I unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way;

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    10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

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    13The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be slain in the streets.

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    13The sluggard saith, There is a lion in the way; A lion is in the streets.

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    17For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls:

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    6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

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