Amos 3:5

American Standard Version (1901)

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is [set] for him? shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes 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 falleth suddenly upon them.
  • Jer 31:28 : 28 And it shall come to pass 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, saith Jehovah.
  • Dan 9:14 : 14 Therefore hath Jehovah watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth, and we have not obeyed his voice.

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    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.

    9A gin shall take [him] by the heel, [And] a snare shall lay hold on him.

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    17For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

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    6Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it?

  • Prov 7:23
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    23Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.

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    12For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes 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 falleth suddenly upon them.

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    5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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    7Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped.

  • Job 28:7-8
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  • Job 22:10
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    10Therefore snares are round about thee, And sudden fear troubleth thee,

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