Amos 5:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

as if someone fled from a lion and was met by a bear or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall and was bitten by a snake.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 10:8

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a snake.

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, to make widows their spoil and to plunder orphans!

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day of punishment, in the calamity that will come from far away? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth,

Acts 28:4

When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer; though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

Deuteronomy 32:24

wasting hunger, burning consumption, bitter pestilence. The teeth of beasts I will send against them, with venom of things crawling in the dust.

Joshua 10:18

Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to guard them,