Amos 3:8

WEB

⁸The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

KJV

⁸The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

BSB

⁸The lion has roared— who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken— who will not prophesy?

FBV

⁸The lion has roared—so who isn't scared? The Lord God has spoken—so who can refuse to speak for him?

Extra References

Jeremiah 20:9

⁹If I say that I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

Acts 4:20

²⁰for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

Amos 3:4

⁴Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?

Amos 1:2

²He said: “The LORD ^[+] will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither.”

1 Corinthians 9:16

¹⁶For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

Amos 2:12

¹²“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’

Revelation 5:5

⁵One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

¹²Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there, ¹³but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”

¹⁴Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs; ¹⁵and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ ¹⁶Now therefore listen to the LORD’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’ ¹⁷Therefore the LORD says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”

Jonah 3:1-3

¹The LORD’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying, ²“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”

³So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.

Acts 5:29

²⁹But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.