Amos 3:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Can a bird fall into a snare upon the earth, where no trap is set for it? Shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

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  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also does not know his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.
  • Jer 31:28 : 28 And it shall come to pass, that just as I have watched over them, to uproot, to break down, to throw down, and to destroy, and to harm; so will I watch over them, to build and to plant, says the LORD.
  • Dan 9:14 : 14 Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

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    80%

    4Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has taken nothing?

  • Job 18:8-10
    3 verses
    79%

    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.

    9The trap 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
    77%

    17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

  • Amos 3:6
    73%

    6Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be calamity in a city, and the LORD has not brought it?

  • Prov 7:23
    72%

    23Until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and does not know that it is for his life.

  • Ps 141:9
    72%

    9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.

  • Eccl 9:12
    72%

    12For man also does not know his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

  • Prov 6:5
    71%

    5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • Ps 124:7
    71%

    7Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

  • Job 28:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7There is a path that no bird knows, and the vulture's eye has not seen:

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

  • Job 22:10
    71%

    10Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;

  • Ps 10:9
    70%

    9He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

  • Jer 5:26-27
    2 verses
    70%

    26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

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

  • Ps 140:5
    70%

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

  • Isa 10:14
    70%

    14And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathers eggs that are left, I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.

  • Job 40:24
    70%

    24He takes it with his eyes; his nose pierces through snares.

  • Obad 1:5
    70%

    5If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you are cut off!—would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes?

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, which they have dug without cause for my soul.

    8Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly, and let his net that he has hidden catch himself; into that very destruction let him fall.

  • Ps 9:15
    70%

    15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

  • Isa 24:17-18
    2 verses
    69%

    17Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.

    18And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare, for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

  • Isa 29:21
    69%

    21That make a man an offender by a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

  • Job 38:39-40
    2 verses
    69%

    39Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

    40When they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thickets?

  • Ps 7:15
    69%

    15He made a pit, and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch he made.

  • Jer 17:11
    69%

    11As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

  • Hab 1:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14You make men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them.

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  • Eccl 10:8
    68%

    8He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaks an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

  • Job 28:21
    68%

    21Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept secret from the birds of the air.

  • Amos 5:19
    68%

    19As if a man fled 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.

  • Job 5:5
    68%

    5Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

  • Ps 57:6
    68%

    6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me; into the midst of it they have fallen themselves. Selah.

  • Job 41:5
    68%

    5Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens?

  • Prov 29:6
    68%

    6In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare; but the righteous sing and rejoice.

  • Jer 50:24
    67%

    24I have set a trap for you, and you are also caught, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have fought against the LORD.

  • Job 39:26-27
    2 verses
    67%

    26Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, and stretch its wings toward the south?

    27Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make its nest on high?

  • Ps 91:3
    67%

    3Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.

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    67%

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    67%

    17Though the fig tree shall not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.

  • Hab 1:17
    67%

    17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

  • Prov 22:5
    67%

    5Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards his soul shall be far from them.

  • Ezek 32:3
    67%

    3Thus says the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread my net over you with a company of many people; and they shall bring you up in my net.

  • Ezek 12:13
    67%

    13My net also I will spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.