Amos 3:8
The lion will roar, who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken, who will not prophesy?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
In Context
Cross References
Job 32:18For I am full of words, and the feeling in my gut inspires me.
Isaiah 21:10O my threshed grain! O sons of my threshing floor! What I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have announced to you.”
Jeremiah 26:12And Jeremiah spoke to all the leaders and to the entire people, saying: “The Lord has sent me to prophesy, about this house and about this city, all the words that you have heard.
Amos 2:12Yet you would offer wine to the Nazirites, and you would command the prophets, saying: “Do not prophesy.”
Amos 7:12And Amaziah said to Amos, “You, seer, go out and flee into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there.
Amos 7:15And the Lord took me, when I was following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’”
Matthew Henry on Amos 3:2-9
God's Remonstrance with Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 1 Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, 2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. 3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed? 4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? 5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the… Read the whole commentary →