Amos 3:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? The Master יהוה  has spoken! Who would not prophesy?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy? [Acts 4:20; 5:20, 29; I Cor. 9:16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ The lion hath roared; who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken; who can but prophesy?

Common English Bible

⁸ A lion has roared; who will not fear? The LORD God has spoken; who can but prophesy?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ The lion will roar, who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken, who will not prophesy?

Amos 3:8 Cross References

Isaiah 21:10

Oh, my threshing and the grain of my floor! That which I have heard from יהוה  of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 31:4

For this is what יהוה  has said to me, “As a lion roars, and a young lion over his prey, though a band of shepherds is called out against him, he is not afraid of their voice nor disturbed by their noise, so יהוה  of hosts shall come down to fight upon Mount Tsiyon and upon its hill.

Jeremiah 20:9

Whenever I said, “Let me not mention Him, nor speak in His Name again,” it was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones. And I became weary of holding it back, and was helpless.

Jeremiah 26:12

And Yirmeyahu spoke to all the heads and all the people, saying, “יהוה  sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city with all the words you heard.

Ezekiel 29:21

‘In that day I shall make the horn of the house of Yisra’ĕ

Amos 1:2

And he said, “יהוה  roars from Tsiyon, and gives forth His voice from Yerushalayim. And the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Karmel shall wither.”

Amos 2:12

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets saying, ‘Do not prophesy!’

Amos 3:4

Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Does a young lion give forth his voice out of his den unless he has caught?

Acts 4:20

“For it is impossible for us not to speak of what we saw and heard.”

Acts 5:20

“Go and stand in the Set-apart Place and speak to the people all the words of this life.”

Acts 5:29

And Kĕ

1 Corinthians 9:16

For if I bring the Good News, it is no boasting for me, for necessity is laid on me, and it is woe to me if I do not bring the Good News!

Revelation 5:5

And one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Yehuḏ