Amos 1:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

and I said: When the LORD roars from Jerusalem, pasture lands and Mount Carmel dry up and turn brown.

Cross References

Psalm 29:4

and his voice is mighty and marvellous.

Psalm 46:6

Nations rage! Kingdoms fall! But at the voice of God the earth itself melts.

Proverbs 20:2

An angry ruler is like a roaring lion— make either one angry, and you are dead.

Isaiah 33:9

Fields are dry and barren; Mount Lebanon wilts with shame. Sharon Valley is a desert; the forests of Bashan and Carmel have lost their leaves.

Isaiah 35:2

Deserts will bloom everywhere and sing joyful songs. They will be as majestic as Mount Lebanon, as glorious as Mount Carmel or Sharon Valley. Everyone will see the wonderful splendour of the LORD our God.

Isaiah 42:13

The LORD is marching out like an angry soldier, shouting with all his might while attacking his enemies.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long will the ground be dry and the pasture lands parched? The birds and animals are dead and gone. And all this happened because the people are so sinful. They even boast, “God can't see the sins we commit.”

Jeremiah 14:2

Judah and Jerusalem weep as the land dries up.

Jeremiah 25:30

The LORD told me to say: From my sacred temple I will roar like thunder, while I trample my people and everyone else as though they were grapes.

Jeremiah 28:8

that long before we were born, prophets were saying powerful kingdoms would be struck by war, disaster, and disease.

Jeremiah 50:19

But I will bring Israel back to its own land. The people will be like sheep eating their fill on Mount Carmel and in Bashan, in the hill country of Ephraim and in Gilead.

Hosea 11:10

I, the LORD, will roar like a lion, and my children will return, trembling from the west.

Hosea 13:8

and rip you apart like a bear robbed of her cubs. I will gnaw on your bones, as though I were a lion or some other wild animal.

Joel 1:19

I cry out to you, LORD. Grasslands and forests are eaten by the scorching heat.

Joel 2:11

The LORD God leads this army of countless troops, and they obey his commands. The day of his judgment is so terrible that no one can stand it.

Joel 3:16

From the heart of Jerusalem the LORD roars like a lion, shaking the earth and sky. But the LORD is a fortress, a place of safety for his people Israel.

Amos 9:3

If they escape to the peaks of Mount Carmel, I'll search and find them. And if they hide from me at the bottom of the ocean, I'll command a sea monster to bite them.

Nahum 1:4

At the LORD's command, oceans and rivers dry up. Bashan, Mount Carmel, and Lebanon wither, and their flowers fade.

1 Samuel 25:2

Nabal was a very rich man who lived in Maon. He owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats, which he kept at Carmel. His wife Abigail was sensible and beautiful, but he was from the Caleb clan and was rough and mean.