Amos 2:14

Geneva Bible (1560)

Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mightie saue his life.

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  • Jer 9:23 : 23 Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisedome, nor the strong man glorie in his strength, neyther the riche man glorie in his riches.
  • Amos 9:1-3 : 1 I sawe the Lorde standing vpon the altar, and he sayde, Smite the lintel of the doore, that the postes may shake: and cut them in pieces, euen the heads of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them, shall not flee away: and he that escapeth of them, shall not be deliuered. 2 Though they digge into the hel, thence shal mine hande take them: though they clime vp to heauen, thence will I bring them downe. 3 And though they hide them selues in the toppe of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence: and though they be hid from my sight in the bottome of the sea, thence will I commande the serpent, and he shall bite them.
  • Ps 33:16 : 16 The King is not saued by the multitude of an hoste, neither is the mightie man deliuered by great strength.
  • Eccl 9:11 : 11 I returned, and I sawe vnder the sunne that the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor also riches to men of vnderstanding, neither yet fauour to men of knowledge: but time and chance commeth to them all.
  • Isa 30:16-17 : 16 For ye haue sayd, No, but we wil flee away vpon horses. Therefore shall ye flee. We will ride vpon the swiftest. Therefore shall your persecuters be swifter. 17 A thousand as one shall flee at the rebuke of one: at the rebuke of fiue shall ye flee, till ye be left as a ship maste vpon the top of a mountaine, and as a beaken vpon an hill.
  • Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.

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    15Nor he that handleth the bowe, shal stand, and he that is swift of foote, shall not escape, neyther shall he that rideth the horse, saue his life.

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    16For ye haue sayd, No, but we wil flee away vpon horses. Therefore shall ye flee. We will ride vpon the swiftest. Therefore shall your persecuters be swifter.

  • Jer 46:6
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    6The swift shal not flee away, nor the strong man escape: they shall stumble, and fall towarde the North by the riuer Perath.

  • Ps 33:16-17
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    16The King is not saued by the multitude of an hoste, neither is the mightie man deliuered by great strength.

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  • Isa 33:23
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    23Thy cordes are loosed: they could not wel strengthen their maste, neither coulde they spread the saile: then shall the praye be deuided for a great spoile: yea, the lame shal take away the pray.

  • Job 9:25-26
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    25My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing.

    26They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.

  • Ps 76:5
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    5The stout hearted are spoyled: they haue slept their sleepe, and all the men of strength haue not found their hands.

  • Isa 21:15
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    15For they flee from the drawen swords, euen from the drawen sword, & from the bent bowe, and from the grieuousnesse of warre.

  • Job 27:22
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    22And God shal cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.

  • Isa 51:14
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    14The captiue hasteneth to be loosed, and that hee should not die in the pitte, nor that his bread should faile.

  • 1 Sam 2:4
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    4The bow and the mightie men are broken, and the weake haue girded themselues with strength.

  • Job 20:24
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    24He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shal strike him through.

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    9He strengtheneth the destroyer against the mightie: and the destroyer shal come against the fortresse.

  • Isa 49:24
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    24Shall the pray be taken from the mightie? Or the iust captiuitie deliuered?

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    22He draweth also the mighty by his power, and when he riseth vp, none is sure of life.

  • Jer 25:35
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    30Euen the yong men shall faint, and be wearie, and the yong men shall stumble and fall.

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  • Isa 31:8
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    8Then shall Asshur fall by the sworde, not of man, neither shall the sworde of man deuoure him, and hee shall flee from the sworde, and his yong men shall faint.

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