Amos 5:19

Amos chapter 5 · verse 19 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

King James Version · 1611

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

American Standard Version · 1901

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

v.18Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light.

v.19This passage

v.20Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Amos 9:1
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.
1 Kings 20:29
And they encamped one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians a hundred thousand footmen in one day.
Job 20:24
He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through.
Jeremiah 48:43
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith Jehovah.
Isaiah 24:17
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Acts 28:4
And when the barbarians saw the venomous creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live.