Amos 3:5

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Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no bait for it? Does a trap spring up from the earth when it has caught nothing?

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For no one knows their time. Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so are people ensnared by an evil time when it suddenly falls upon them.
  • Jer 31:28 : 28 Just as I watched over them to uproot, tear down, demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the LORD.
  • Dan 9:14 : 14 Therefore, the LORD has kept the disaster in store and brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in everything He does, yet we have not obeyed His voice.

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    4Does a lion roar in the forest if it has no prey? Does a young lion growl from its den unless it has caught something?

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    8For his feet are cast into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

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    10His rope lies hidden in the ground, and his trap is set along the path.

  • Prov 1:17
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    17Surely in vain is the net spread in sight of any bird,

  • Amos 3:6
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    6Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city unless the Lord has done it?

  • Prov 7:23
    72%

    23Until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird rushing into a trap, not realizing it will cost him his life.

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    9Keep me from the trap they have set for me and from the snares of those who do evil.

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    12For no one knows their time. Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so are people ensnared by an evil time when it suddenly falls upon them.

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    5Free yourself like a gazelle from the trap, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • Ps 124:7
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    7We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

  • Job 28:7-8
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    7No bird of prey knows that path, nor has the hawk's eye seen it.

    8Proud beasts have not set foot on it, nor has the lion prowled over it.

  • Job 22:10
    71%

    10That is why snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you.

  • Ps 10:9
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    9He lies in wait secretly, like a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the afflicted; he catches the afflicted by drawing them into his net.

  • Jer 5:26-27
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    70%

    26Among My people are wicked men. They lie in wait like those who set traps; they set deadly snares to catch people.

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    70%

    5Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plot to overthrow my steps.

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    14My hand seized the wealth of nations like one finds a nest. As one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; no wing fluttered, no beak opened to chirp.

  • Job 40:24
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    24Can anyone capture him by his eyes or pierce his nose with snares?

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  • Ps 35:7-8
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    7For without cause, they hid a pit for me; without reason, they dug a trap to capture my life.

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    15So that I may recount all your praises in the gates of Daughter Zion; I will rejoice in your salvation.

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    17Terror, pit, and snare confront you, O inhabitant of the earth.

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    68%

    14You have made mankind like the fish of the sea, like sea creatures who have no ruler.

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    68%

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    68%

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    68%

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    2 verses
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