Amos 3:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:21 : 21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
  • Hos 11:10 : 10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
  • Amos 1:2 : 2 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
  • Amos 3:8 : 8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
  • Hos 5:14 : 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the use of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

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  • Job 38:39-41
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    39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

    40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

    41 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

  • Nah 2:11-12
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    11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

    12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

  • 5 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?

  • Job 4:10-11
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    10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

    11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

  • 21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.

  • 8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

  • 29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

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    30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;

    31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.

  • 8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

  • 12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • 15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

  • 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

  • 24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

  • 5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

  • 3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

  • 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • 38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

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    2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

  • Ezek 19:5-7
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    5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

    6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

    7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

  • 9 He 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.

  • 7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

  • 6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

  • 4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

  • 10 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

  • 38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

    3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

  • 1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

  • 7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

  • 5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

  • 10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret pces.

  • 13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

  • 9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

  • 18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

  • 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

  • 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the use of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

  • 15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

  • 13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

  • 17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

  • 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

  • 3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roath: and when he had cried, seven thunders utted their voices.

  • 3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

  • 9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.