Amos 3:8

New American Bible - revised edition

The lion has roared, who would not fear? The Lord God has spoken, who would not prophesy?

Cross References

Isaiah 21:10

To you, who have been threshed, beaten on my threshing floor, What I have heard from the Lord of hosts, The God of Israel, I have announced to you.

Isaiah 31:4

For thus says the Lord to me: As a lion or its young growling over the prey, With a band of shepherds assembled against it, Is neither dismayed by their shouts nor cowed by their noise, So shall the Lord of hosts come down to wage war upon Mount Zion, upon its height.

Jeremiah 20:9

I say I will not mention him, I will no longer speak in his name. But then it is as if fire is burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding back, I cannot!

Jeremiah 26:12

Jeremiah said to the princes and all the people: “It was the Lord who sent me to prophesy against this house and city everything you have heard.

Ezekiel 29:21

On that day I will make a horn sprout for the house of Israel, and I will let you again open your mouth in their midst; then they shall know that I am the Lord.

Amos 1:2

He said: The Lord roars from Zion, and raises his voice from Jerusalem; The pastures of the shepherds languish, and the summit of Carmel withers.

Amos 2:12

But you made the nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, “Do not prophesy!”

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?

Acts 4:20

It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

Acts 5:20

“Go and take your place in the temple area, and tell the people everything about this life.”

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles said in reply, “We must obey God rather than men.

1 Corinthians 9:16

If I preach the gospel, this is no reason for me to boast, for an obligation has been imposed on me, and woe to me if I do not preach it!

Revelation 5:5

One of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. The lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has triumphed, enabling him to open the scroll with its seven seals.”