Amos 3:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Does a bird swoop down on a trap on the ground when there is no lure for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground without catching anything?

Cross References

Psalm 140:5

Keep me, Lord, from the clutches of the wicked; preserve me from the violent, who plot to trip me up.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Human beings no more know their own time than fish taken in the fatal net or birds trapped in the snare; like these, mortals are caught when an evil time suddenly falls upon them. The Uncertain Future and the Sages.

Jeremiah 31:28

As I once watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, to destroy, and to harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant—oracle of the Lord.

Daniel 9:14

so the Lord kept watch over the evil and brought it upon us. The Lord, our God, is just in all that he has done: we did not listen to his voice.

Amos 3:4

Does a lion roar in the forest when it has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from its den unless it has seized something?

Amos 3:6

Does the ram’s horn sound in a city without the people becoming frightened? Does disaster befall a city unless the Lord has caused it?