Amos 5:19

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 24:17-18 : 17 Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabitant the earth. 18 It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
  • Jer 15:2-3 : 2 It shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go forth? Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity. 3 I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
  • Jer 48:43-44 : 43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, inhabitant of Moab, says Yahweh. 44 He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
  • Amos 9:1-2 : 1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. 2 Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live."
  • 1 Kgs 20:29-30 : 29 They encamped one over against the other seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand footmen of the Syrians in one day. 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.
  • Job 20:24-25 : 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through. 25 He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

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    18 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.

  • Lam 3:10-11
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    10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

    11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Eccl 10:8-9
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    8 He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

    9 Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them. Whoever splits wood may be endangered thereby.

  • Prov 17:12
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    12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

  • Jer 5:6
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    6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.

  • 1 Kgs 20:36-37
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    36 Then he said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, behold, as soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall kill you." As soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and killed him.

    37 Then he found another man, and said, "Please strike me." The man struck him, smiting and wounding him.

  • Isa 11:8
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    8 The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.

  • Ezek 19:5-6
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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.

  • Jer 8:17
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    17 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.

  • Prov 22:13
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    13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"

  • Ps 17:12
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    12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Prov 6:5
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    5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7 Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

    8 I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

  • Prov 28:15
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    15 As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

  • Job 12:5
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    5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

  • 1 Pet 5:8
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    8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

  • Prov 26:13
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    13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!"

  • Prov 23:32
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    32 In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

  • 1 Kgs 13:24-26
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    24 When he had gone, a lion met him by the way, and killed him. His body was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

    25 Behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.

    26 When the prophet who brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, "It is the man of God who was disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh has delivered him to the lion, which has mauled him and slain him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to him."

  • 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.

  • Jer 25:38
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    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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    15 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;

  • Isa 5:29-30
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    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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  • Joel 1:6
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    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.

  • Eccl 10:11
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    11 If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.

  • Jer 12:5
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    5 If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

  • Amos 3:4
    69%

    4 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?

  • Deut 19:5
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    5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

  • Prov 7:23
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    23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.

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    16 He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

  • Jer 4:7
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    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.

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    5 "If thieves came to you, if robbers by night--oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?

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    15 and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.

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

  • Job 18:9-10
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    9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

    10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

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    5 However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn't harmed.

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    25 So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn't fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

  • Ps 10:9
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    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.