Amos 3:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?

Cross References

Isaiah 21:10

O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you.

Isaiah 31:4

For thus the Lord said to me, “As a lion or a young lion growls over its prey and, when a band of shepherds is called out against it, is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the Lord of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.

Jeremiah 20:9

If I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,” then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

Jeremiah 26:12

Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and all the people, saying, “It is the Lord who sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard.

Ezekiel 29:21

On that day I will cause a horn to sprout up for the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

Amos 1:2

And he said: The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds wither, and the top of Carmel dries up.

Amos 2:12

But you made the nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets, saying, “You shall 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 if it has caught nothing?

Acts 4:20

for we cannot keep from speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Acts 5:20

“Go, stand in the temple and tell the people the whole message about this life.”

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than any human authority.

1 Corinthians 9:16

If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel!

Revelation 5:5

Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”