Amos 3:8

Everyone certainly becomes terrified [RHQ] when they hear a lion roar, and if Yahweh the Lord has given messages to prophets like me, we certainly must [RHQ] proclaim those messages, even if they cause people to become terrified.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

In Context

7And whatever Yahweh plans to do, he tells his prophets about it.

9I said this to the leaders of Samaria (OR, Yahweh said this to me): Send this message to the leaders [MET] in Ashdod city and to Egypt: “Come to the hills of Samaria and see the way that their ◄leaders/wealthy people► are causing people in that city to be terrified, and the way that they are causing the people to suffer!”

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Cross References

Job 32:18I have plenty to say, and my spirit compels me to say it.

Isaiah 21:10My people in Judah, the army of Babylon has caused you to suffer greatly as though [MET] you were grain that was threshed and ◄winnowed/thrown up into the air for the wind to blow away the chaff►. But now I have told you what the Commander of the armies of angels the God whom we Israelis worship, told me about Babylon.

Jeremiah 26:12Then I replied to the officials and the other people, saying, “Yahweh sent me to prophesy all the things that you heard me say about what will happen to this temple and this city.

Amos 2:12But you commanded the prophets to not speak the messages that I gave to them, and you persuaded the Nazir-men to drink wine, which I told them never to do.

Amos 7:12Then Amaziah came to me and said, “You prophet, get out of here! Go back to the country of Judah! Earn money to buy food to be able to live there, and do your prophesying there!

Amos 7:15But Yahweh took me away from taking care of my sheep, and he said to me, ‘Go to Israel and prophesy to my people there!’

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 →

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