Amos 5:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 24:17-18 : 17 Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth. 18 And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.
  • Jer 15:2-3 : 2 And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away. 3 And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.
  • Jer 48:43-44 : 43 Fear and death and the net have come on you, O people of Moab, says the Lord. 44 He who goes in flight from the fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for I will make this come on Moab, even the year of their punishment, says the Lord.
  • Amos 9:1-2 : 1 I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe. 2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living.
  • 1 Kgs 20:29-30 : 29 Now the two armies kept their positions facing one another for seven days. And on the seventh day the fight was started; and the children of Israel put to the sword a hundred thousand Aramaean footmen in one day. 30 But the rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room.
  • Job 20:24-25 : 24 He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him; 25 He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.

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    20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

  • Amos 5:18
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    18 Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.

  • Lam 3:10-11
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    10 He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Eccl 10:8-9
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    8 He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.

    9 He who gets out stones from the earth will be damaged by them, and in the cutting of wood there is danger.

  • Prov 17:12
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    12 It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.

  • Jer 5:6
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    6 And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

  • 1 Kgs 20:36-37
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    36 Then he said to him, Because you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, straight away when you have gone from me a lion will put you to death. And when he had gone, straight away a lion came rushing at him and put him to death.

    37 Then he came across another man, and said, Give me a wound. And the man gave him a blow wounding him.

  • Isa 11:8
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    8 And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake.

  • Ezek 19:5-6
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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.

  • Jer 8:17
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    17 See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.

  • Prov 22:13
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    13 The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

  • Ps 17:12
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    12 Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

  • Prov 6:5
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    5 Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7 So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;

    8 I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.

  • Prov 28:15
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    15 Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.

  • Job 12:5
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    5 In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

  • 1 Pet 5:8
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    8 Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

  • Prov 26:13
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    13 The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

  • Prov 23:32
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    32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

  • 1 Kgs 13:24-26
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    24 And he went on his way; but on the road a lion came rushing at him and put him to death; and his dead body was stretched in the road with the ass by its side, and the lion was there by the body.

    25 And some men, going by, saw the body stretched out in the road with the lion by its side; and they came and gave news of it in the town where the old prophet was living.

    26 Then the prophet who had made him come back, hearing it, said, It is the man of God, who went against the word of the Lord; that is why the Lord has given him to the lion to be wounded to death, as the Lord said.

  • 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.

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    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.

  • Ezek 14:15
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    15 Or if I send evil beasts through the land causing destruction and making it waste, so that no man may go through because of the beasts:

  • Isa 5:29-30
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    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.

    30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

  • Joel 1:6
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    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.

  • Eccl 10:11
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    11 If a snake gives a bite before the word of power is said, then there is no longer any use in the word of power.

  • Jer 12:5
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    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?

  • Amos 3:4
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    4 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?

  • Deut 19:5
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    5 For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe:

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    23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

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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.

  • Job 20:16
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    16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

  • Jer 4:7
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    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.

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    5 If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?

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    15 Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?

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

  • Job 18:9-10
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    9 His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

    10 The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

  • Acts 28:5
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    5 But shaking off the beast into the fire, he got no damage.

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    25 Now when first they were living there they did not give worship to the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, causing the death of some of them.

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    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.