Amos 2:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 33:16-17 : 16 A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength. 17 A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.
  • Ezek 39:3 : 3 And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand and your arrows falling from your right hand.

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    14 And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:

  • Amos 2:16
    84%

    16 And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.

  • Ps 33:16-17
    2 verses
    80%

    16 A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength.

    17 A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.

  • Isa 30:16
    79%

    16 Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be quick-footed.

  • Isa 5:27-28
    2 verses
    75%

    27 There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.

    28 Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.

  • Jer 12:5
    74%

    5 If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?

  • Jer 4:29
    74%

    29 All the land is in flight because of the noise of the horsemen and the bowmen; they have taken cover in the woodland and up on the rocks: every town has been given up, not a man is living in them.

  • Obad 1:14
    74%

    14 And do not take your place at the cross-roads, cutting off those of his people who get away; and do not give up to their haters those who are still there in the day of trouble.

  • Jer 46:4-6
    3 verses
    73%

    4 Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates.

    5 What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.

    6 Let not the quick-footed go in flight, or the man of war get away; on the north, by the river Euphrates, they are slipping and falling.

  • Isa 31:8
    73%

    8 Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.

  • Jer 47:3
    73%

    3 At the noise of the stamping of the feet of his war-horses, at the rushing of his carriages and the thunder of his wheels, fathers will give no thought to their children, because their hands are feeble;

  • Prov 21:31
    73%

    31 The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.

  • Isa 21:15
    73%

    15 For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.

  • Ps 44:6
    73%

    6 I will not put faith in my bow, my sword will not be my salvation.

  • Zech 10:5
    72%

    5 Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

  • Lev 26:37
    72%

    37 Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.

  • Ps 147:10
    72%

    10 He has no delight in the strength of a horse; he takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

  • Joel 2:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.

    8 No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.

  • Nah 3:3
    71%

    3 Horsemen driving forward, and the shining sword and the bright spear: and a great number of wounded, and masses of dead bodies; they are falling over the bodies of the dead:

  • Hab 1:8
    71%

    8 And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.

  • Jer 6:23
    71%

    23 Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion.

  • Mic 5:10
    71%

    10 I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:

  • Isa 31:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1 Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;

    2 Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

    3 For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.

  • Job 20:24
    71%

    24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

  • Ezek 26:11
    71%

    11 Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.

  • Isa 13:14
    71%

    14 And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

  • Ezek 7:15
    70%

    15 Outside is the sword, and inside disease and need of food: he who is in the open country will be put to the sword; he who is in the town will come to his end through need of food and disease.

  • Zeph 1:18
    70%

    18 Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.

  • Jer 25:35
    70%

    35 There will be no way of flight for the keepers of sheep, no road for the chiefs of the flock to get away safely.

  • Isa 37:34
    70%

    34 By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.

  • Nah 2:5
    70%

    5 The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.

  • 2 Kgs 19:32-33
    2 verses
    70%

    32 For this cause the Lord says about the king of Assyria, He will not come into this town, or send an arrow against it; he will not come before it with arms, or put up an earthwork against it;

    33 By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town, says the Lord.

  • Jer 46:15
    70%

    15 Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.

  • Hab 3:17
    70%

    17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • Isa 33:23
    70%

    23 Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed will make division of the goods of war.

  • Joel 2:5
    70%

    5 Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.

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    70%

    42 Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.

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    25 Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.