Amos 3:4

World English Bible (2000)

Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:21 : 21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.
  • Hos 11:10 : 10 They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
  • Amos 1:2 : 2 He said: "Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither."
  • Amos 3:8 : 8 The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
  • Hos 5:14 : 14 For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

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  • Job 38:39-41
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    82%

    39 "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

    40 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

    41 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

  • Nah 2:11-12
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    11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?

    12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

  • 5 Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?

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

    11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

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

  • 8 The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

  • 29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

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    30 The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn't turn away for any;

    31 the greyhound, the male goat also; and the king against whom there is no rising up.

  • 8 The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

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

  • 15 The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  • 10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

  • 24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain."

  • 5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

  • 3 Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

  • 13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • 38 He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

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    2 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping 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 cubs, and made him a young lion.

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

    7 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

  • 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

  • 7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  • 6 For a nation has come up on my land, strong, and without number. His teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the fangs of a lioness.

  • 4 For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

  • 10 They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

  • 38 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.

  • Ezek 19:2-3
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    2 and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

    3 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

  • 1 The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

  • 7 Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

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

  • 10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

  • 13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"

  • 9 Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

  • 18 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

  • 19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

  • 14 For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

  • 15 As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

  • 13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!"

  • 17 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

  • 6 Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

  • 3 He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.

  • 3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

  • 9 All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you animals in the forest.