Amos 2:12 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹² Will a lion roar in the forest, if he have no prey? will the lion's whelp cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing ?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² But you gave the dedicated ones [the Nazirites] wine to drink and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

Common English Bible

¹² But you made the nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, “You won’t prophesy.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Yet you would offer wine to the Nazirites, and you would command the prophets, saying: "Do not prophesy."

Amos 2:12 Cross References

Isaiah 30:10

8 Therefore the Lord waiteth that be may have mercy on you: and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Jeremiah 11:21

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice: believe them not when they speak good things to thee.

Jeremiah 35:5

3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Go, and say to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will you not receive instruction, to obey my words, saith the Lord ?

Amos 7:13

Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail,

Amos 7:16

The Lord hath sworn against the pride of Jacob: surely I will never forget all their works.

Micah 2:6

And I said: Hear, O ye princes of Jacob, and ye chiefs of the house of Israel: Is it not your part to know judgment,

Numbers 6:2

Neither shall he make himself unclean, even for his father, or for his mother, or for his brother, or for his sister, when they die, because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Numbers 6:3

All the days of his separation he shall be holy to the Lord.