Amos 5:19

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It will be as if a man flees from a lion, only to be met by a bear; or as if he enters his house, rests his hand on the wall, and a snake bites him.

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  • Isa 24:17-18 : 17 Terror, pit, and snare confront you, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare; for the floodgates of the heavens are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake.
  • Jer 15:2-3 : 2 And if they ask you, 'Where should we go?' tell them, 'This is what the LORD says: Those destined for death, to death; those for the sword, to the sword; those for famine, to famine; and those for captivity, to captivity.' 3 I will appoint over them four kinds of punishment, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth to devour and destroy.
  • Jer 48:43-44 : 43 Terror, pit, and snare await you, O inhabitant of Moab, declares the LORD. 44 The one who flees from the terror will fall into the pit, and the one climbing out of the pit will be caught in the snare. For I will bring on Moab the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.
  • Amos 9:1-2 : 1 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said, 'Strike the capitals so that the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people. Those who survive I will kill with the sword; not one of them will flee, not a single one will escape.' 2 'If they dig down to the depths of Sheol, from there My hand will take them. If they climb up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.'
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 When the locals saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "Surely this man is a murderer! Although he escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live."
  • 1 Kgs 20:29-30 : 29 For seven days, the two armies camped opposite each other. On the seventh day, the battle began, and the Israelites struck down 100,000 Aramean foot soldiers in one day. 30 The rest of the Arameans fled to the city of Aphek, where a wall collapsed on 27,000 of them. Meanwhile, Ben-Hadad fled to the city and hid in an inner room.
  • Job 20:24-25 : 24 Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze arrow will pierce him. 25 It is drawn out and comes forth from his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come over him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 5:20
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    20Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, gloom with no brightness in it?

  • Amos 5:18
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    18Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you desire it? The day of the Lord will be darkness and not light.

  • Lam 3:10-11
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    10He is like a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding.

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Eccl 10:8-9
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    74%

    8Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

    9One who quarries stones may be hurt by them, and one who splits wood may be endangered by it.

  • Prov 17:12
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    12Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

  • Jer 5:6
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    6Therefore, a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the wilderness will ravage them, and a leopard is watching their cities. Anyone who goes out will be torn apart, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings are numerous.

  • 1 Kgs 20:36-37
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    36Then the prophet said to him, 'Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, as soon as you leave me, a lion will kill you.' And as soon as he left him, a lion found him and killed him.

    37The prophet found another man and said, 'Please strike me.' So the man struck him and wounded him.

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

  • Ezek 19:5-6
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    5When she saw that her hope was lost and her waiting was in vain, she took another one of her cubs and made him into a young lion.

    6He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey and devoured people.

  • Jer 8:17
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    17See, I am sending venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you, declares the LORD.

  • Prov 22:13
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    13The lazy person says, 'There's a lion outside! I might be killed in the streets!'

  • Ps 17:12
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    12They are like a lion eager to tear its prey, like a young lion crouching in hiding.

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

  • Hos 13:7-8
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    7So I will become like a lion to them, like a leopard lying in wait by the path.

    8I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear their hearts open. There I will devour them like a lion; a wild beast will rip them apart.

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

  • Job 12:5
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    5"Those who are at ease hold contempt for misfortune, as if it were prepared for the feet of those slipping."

  • 1 Pet 5:8
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    8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

  • Prov 26:13
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    13The lazy person says, 'There is a lion in the road, a lion in the streets!'

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

  • 1 Kgs 13:24-26
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    24As he was traveling, a lion met him on the road and killed him. His body was thrown on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

    25Some people who passed by saw the body lying on the road, with the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported it in the city where the old prophet lived.

    26When the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard about it, he said, 'It is the man of God who defied the command of the LORD. Therefore, the LORD has given him over to the lion, which has mauled and killed him, just as the word of the LORD had spoken to him.'

  • Nah 2:11-12
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    11Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts melt, knees tremble, loins shake, and all faces turn pale.

    12Where is the lion’s den, the lair of the young lions, where the lion went, the lioness went, and the lion’s cubs, with no one to disturb them?

  • Jer 25:38
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    38Like a lion leaving its lair, He has left His den, for their land has become a desolation because of the oppressor's wrath and the LORD's fierce anger.

  • Ezek 14:15
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    15If I send wild beasts through the land and they ravage it, leaving it desolate so that no one can pass through because of the beasts,

  • Isa 5:29-30
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    29Their roar is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey and carry it off, with no one to rescue it.

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  • Joel 1:6
    69%

    6For a nation has invaded my land, strong and without number. Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and it has the fangs of a lioness.

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

  • Jer 12:5
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    5If you have raced with footmen and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? And if you feel secure in a land of peace, how will you manage in the thickets of the Jordan?

  • Amos 3:4
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    4Does a lion roar in the forest if it has no prey? Does a young lion growl from its den unless it has caught something?

  • Deut 19:5
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    5for instance, when a man goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood and his hand swings the axe to cut the tree, and the iron head slips off the handle and strikes his neighbor, and he dies—that man may flee to one of these cities and live.

  • Prov 7:23
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    23Until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird rushing into a trap, not realizing it will cost him his life.

  • Prov 28:1
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    1The wicked flee when no one pursues them, but the righteous are as confident as a young lion.

  • Job 20:16
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    16He will suck the venom of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.

  • Jer 4:7
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    7A lion has come out of his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has left his place to turn your land into a waste. Your cities will be ruined, without inhabitants.

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    5If thieves came to you, if robbers came by night—oh, how you would be ruined!—would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

  • Job 39:15
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    15She forgets that a foot may crush them or a wild animal may trample them.

  • Job 28:8
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    8Proud beasts have not set foot on it, nor has the lion prowled over it.

  • Job 18:9-10
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    9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him tight.

    10His rope lies hidden in the ground, and his trap is set along the path.

  • Acts 28:5
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    5But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no harm.

  • 2 Kgs 17:25
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    25When they first lived there, they did not fear the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of the people.

  • Ps 10:9
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    9He lies in wait secretly, like a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the afflicted; he catches the afflicted by drawing them into his net.