Amos 3:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

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?

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
  • Jer 31:28 : 28 It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says Yahweh.
  • Dan 9:14 : 14 Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

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    4Will 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?

  • Job 18:8-10
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    79%

    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he wanders into its mesh.

    9A snare shall take him by the heel; A trap shall lay hold on him.

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

  • Prov 1:17
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    17For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

  • Amos 3:6
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    6Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, Without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, And Yahweh hasn't done it?

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

  • Ps 141:9
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    9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, From the traps of the workers of iniquity.

  • Eccl 9:12
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    12For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

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

  • Ps 124:7
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    7Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

  • Job 28:7-8
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    71%

    7That path no bird of prey knows, Neither has the falcon's eye seen it.

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

  • Job 22:10
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    10Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you,

  • Ps 10:9
    70%

    9He 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.

  • Jer 5:26-27
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    70%

    26For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

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

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    5The proud have hidden a snare for me, They have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

  • Isa 10:14
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    14and my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.

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    24Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?

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    5If 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?

  • Ps 35:7-8
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    70%

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

    8Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • Ps 9:15
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    15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

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

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  • Job 38:39-40
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    39"Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

    40When they crouch in their dens, And lie in wait in the thicket?

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    15He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made.

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    11As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

  • Hab 1:14-15
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    14and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

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    68%

    8He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

  • Job 28:21
    68%

    21Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the sky.

  • Amos 5:19
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    19As 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.

  • Job 5:5
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    5Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.

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    6They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the midst of it themselves. Selah.

  • Job 41:5
    68%

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

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    68%

    6An evil man is snared by his sin, But the righteous can sing and be glad.

  • Jer 50:24
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    24I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.

  • Job 39:26-27
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    67%

    26"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, And stretches her wings toward the south?

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    17For 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:

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    17Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?

  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: Whoever guards his soul stays from them.

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    3Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.

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