Amos 3:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:21 : 21 The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.
  • Hos 11:10 : 10 They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;
  • Amos 1:2 : 2 And he said, The Lord will give a lion's cry from Zion, his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the fields of the keepers of sheep will become dry, and the top of Carmel will be wasted away.
  • Amos 3:8 : 8 The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?
  • Hos 5:14 : 14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.

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  • Nah 2:11-12
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    11 Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.

    12 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?

  • 5 Is it possible for a bird to be taken in a net on the earth where no net has been put for him? will the net come up from the earth if it has taken nothing at all?

  • Job 4:10-11
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    10 Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

    11 The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

  • 21 The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

  • 8 The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

  • 29 The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

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    30 The lion, which is strongest among beasts, not turning from his way for any;

    31 The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.

  • 8 The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?

  • 12 Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

  • 15 The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

  • 10 The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

  • 24 See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

  • 5 Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?

  • 3 Is it possible for two to go walking together, if not by agreement?

  • 13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

  • 38 The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.

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    2 So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

  • Ezek 19:5-7
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    5 Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.

    6 And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.

    7 And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.

  • 9 He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

  • 7 A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.

  • 6 For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.

  • 4 For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion, makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices, or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill.

  • 10 They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;

  • 38 They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.

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    2 What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.

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  • 1 The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.

  • 7 So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;

  • 5 Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.

  • 10 He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

  • 13 The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

  • 9 Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?

  • 18 What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

  • 19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

  • 14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.

  • 15 Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.

  • 13 The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

  • 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:

  • 6 O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.

  • 3 And he gave a loud cry, like the angry voice of a lion: and at his cry the voices of the seven thunders were sounding.

  • 3 The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.

  • 9 All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.