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They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west. Joel 3:16 The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel. Revelation 10:3 Then he cried out ...
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The lion which roars when it has the prey before it is...
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8 NIV - Amos 3:8 The lion has roared--who will not fear? The...
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Jan 24, 2017 · So far, the message is that the people of Israel are like the stray sheep that hears the roar of a lion and is paralyzed in fear, because once you hear the roar of the lion it is too late. The calamity that is coming on Samaria is like the trap that springs up when it has a bird in its grip, and there is no escape from this trap.
The lion which roars when it has the prey before it is Jehovah (cf. Amos 1:2; Hosea 11:10, etc.). טרף אין לו is not to be interpreted according to the second clause, as signifying "without having got possession of its prey" (Hitzig), for the lion is accustomed to roar when it has the prey before it and there is no possibility of its escape, and before it actually seizes it (cf. Isaiah ...
The second question reads, Does a young lion growl from his den unless he has captured something? Another negative answer is implied. A young lion does not growl or utter his voice unless he has caught something. Similarly, the LORD would not roar from Zion if He were not about to attack Israel (Amos 1:2). Such an attack was unavoidable because ...
3 Two people will not walk together unless they agree to do so. 4 A lion in the forest will only roar when he catches an animal. A young lion will not roar in his cave if he has caught nothing. 5 A bird will not fly into a trap on the ground if there is no food there. A trap will not shut unless there is a bird in it.
The Lord, "the Lion of the tribe of Judah" (Revelation 5:5), has roared against Israel to take heed. When a lion roars, anyone within hearing distance should change the direction of his path, especially if the lion is very close! Amos 3:3-6 contains seven consecutive questions. After the first one (verse 3), the remaining three pairs of ...
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Amos 3:4. Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey? &c.] He will not, unless he has it in his sight, or in his paws; he roars when he first sees it, whereby he terrifies the creature, that it cannot move till he comes up to it; and when he has got it in his paws, he roars over it, to invite others to partake with him.
