Amos 3:5
Does a bird swoop down into a trap on the ground if there is no bait? Does a trap spring up from the ground unless it has surely caught something?
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Referenced Verses
- Eccl 9:12 : 12 Surely, no one knows his appointed time! Like fish that are caught in a deadly net, and like birds that are caught in a snare– just like them, all people are ensnared at an unfortunate time that falls upon them suddenly.
- Jer 31:28 : 28 In the past I saw to it that they were uprooted and torn down, that they were destroyed and demolished and brought disaster. But now I will see to it that they are built up and firmly planted. I, the LORD, affirm it!”
- Dan 9:14 : 14 The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.
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4Does a lion roar in the woods if he has not cornered his prey? Does a young lion bellow from his den if he has not caught something?
- Job 18:8-103 verses79%
8For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.
9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.
10A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.
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17Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,
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6If an alarm sounds in a city, do people not fear? If disaster overtakes a city, is the LORD not responsible?
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23till an arrow pierces his liver– like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.
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9Protect me from the snare they have laid for me, and the traps the evildoers have set.
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12Surely, no one knows his appointed time! Like fish that are caught in a deadly net, and like birds that are caught in a snare– just like them, all people are ensnared at an unfortunate time that falls upon them suddenly.
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5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.
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7We escaped with our lives, like a bird from a hunter’s snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.
- Job 28:7-82 verses71%
7a hidden path no bird of prey knows– no falcon’s eye has spotted it.
8Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.
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10That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you,
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9He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.
- Jer 5:26-272 verses70%
26“Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.
27Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.
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5Proud men hide a snare for me; evil men spread a net by the path; they set traps for me.(Selah)
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14My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest, as one gathers up abandoned eggs, I gathered up the whole earth. There was no wing flapping, or open mouth chirping.”
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24Can anyone catch it by its eyes, or pierce its nose with a snare?
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5“If thieves came to rob you during the night, they would steal only as much as they wanted! If grape pickers came to harvest your vineyards, they would leave some behind for the poor! But you will be totally destroyed!
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7I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.
8Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!
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15The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.
- Isa 24:17-182 verses69%
17Terror, pit, and snare are ready to overtake you inhabitants of the earth!
18The one who runs away from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit; the one who climbs out of the pit, will be trapped by the snare. For the floodgates of the heavens are opened up and the foundations of the earth shake.
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21those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.
- Job 38:39-402 verses69%
39“Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,
40when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?
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15he digs a pit and then falls into the hole he has made.
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11The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”
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14You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.
15The Babylonian tyrant pulls them all up with a fishhook; he hauls them in with his throw net. When he catches them in his dragnet, he is very happy.
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8Wisdom is Needed to Avert Dangers in Everyday Life One who digs a pit may fall into it, and one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
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21For it has been hidden from the eyes of every living creature, and from the birds of the sky it has been concealed.
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19Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.
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5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
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6They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it!(Selah)
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5Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?
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6In the transgression of an evil person there is a snare, but a righteous person can sing and rejoice.
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24I set a trap for you, Babylon; you were caught before you knew it. You fought against me. So you were found and captured.
- Job 39:26-272 verses67%
26“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars, and spreads its wings toward the south?
27Is it at your command that the eagle soars, and builds its nest on high?
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3he will certainly rescue you from the snare of the hunter and from the destructive plague.
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2Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause does not come to rest.
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17When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,
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17Will he then continue to fill and empty his throw net? Will he always destroy nations and spare none?
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5Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.
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3“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘I will throw my net over you in the assembly of many peoples; and they will haul you up in my dragnet.
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13But I will throw my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans(but he will not see it), and there he will die.