Amos 3:5

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin [is] for him? shall [one] take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
  • Jer 31:28 : 28 And it shall come to pass, [that] like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
  • Dan 9:14 : 14 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God [is] righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

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  • Job 18:8-10
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    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

    9The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.

    10The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

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

  • Amos 3:6
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    6Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done [it]?

  • Prov 7:23
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    23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.

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    9Keep me from the snares [which] they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

  • Eccl 9:12
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    12For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

  • Prov 6:5
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    5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • Ps 124:7
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    7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

  • Job 28:7-8
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    7[There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

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  • Job 22:10
    71%

    10Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

  • Ps 10:9
    70%

    9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

  • Jer 5:26-27
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    26For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

    27As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

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    5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

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    5If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave [some] grapes?

  • Ps 35:7-8
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    7For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.

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    5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

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