Amos 3:8 Cross References - Coverdale

⁸ When a lyon roareth, who will not be afrayed? Seynge then that the LORDE God himself speaketh, who will not prophecy?

¹⁸ For I am full of wordes, & the sprete that is within me, copelleth me. ¹⁹ Beholde, I am as the new wyne which hath no vente, & bursteth the new vessels in sunder.

⁹ Wherfore, I thought from hence forth, not to speake of him, ner to preach eny more in his name. But the worde off the LORDE was a very burnynge fyre in my hert and in my bones, which when I wolde haue stopped, I might not.

² And he sayde: The LORDE shal roare out off Sion, & shewe his voyce fro Ierusale: so that ye pastures of the shepherdes shal be in a miserable case, & ye toppe of Charmel dryed vp.

¹² But ye gaue the absteyners wyne to drynke, yee ye comaunded the prophetes, sayenge: Prophecy not.

⁴ Doth a lyon roare in the wodde, excepte he haue a pray? Or crieth a lyons whelpe out of his denne, excepte he haue gotten somthige?

¹² And Amasias sayde vnto Amos: Get the hence (thou that cast se so well) and fle in to the londe of Iuda: get the there thy lyuynge, and prophecy there: ¹³ and prophecy nomore at Bethel, for it is the kynges chapel, and the kynges courte. ¹⁴ Amos answered, and sayde to Amasias: As for me, I am nether prophet, ner prophetes sonne: but a keper of catell. Now as I was breakynge downe molberies, and goynge after the catell, ¹⁵ the LORDE toke me, & sayde vnto me: Go thy waye, and prophecy vnto my people of Israel. ¹⁶ And therfore, heare thou now the worde off the LORDE: Thou saiest: prophecy not agaynst Israel, and speake nothinge agaynst the house off Isaac. ¹⁷ Wherfore thus sayeth the LORDE: Thy wife shalbe defyled in ye cite, yi sonnes and doughters shalbe slayne with the swerde, and thy londe shalbe measured out with the lyne: Thou thy self shalt dye in an vnclene londe, and Israel shalbe dryuen out off his owne countre.

¹ The worde of the LORDE came vnto Ionas the sonne of Amithai, sayenge: ² Aryse, and get the to Niniue that greate cite: and preach vnto them, how yt their wickednesse is come vp before me. ³ And Ionas made him ready to fle vnto Tharsis from the presence of the LORDE, and gat him downe to Ioppa: where he founde a shippe ready for to go vnto Tharsis. So he payde his fare, and wente aborde, that he might go with them vnto Tharsis from the presence of the LORDE.

¹ Then came the worde of the LORDE vnto Ionas agayne, sayenge: ² vp, and get the to Niniue that greate cite, & preach vnto them the preachinge, which I bade the. ³ So Ionas arose, and wente to Niniue at the LORDES commaundement. Niniue was a greate cite vnto God, namely, off thre dayes iourney.

²⁰ We can not chose, but speake that we haue sene & herde.

²⁰ Go youre waye and steppe vp, and speake in the temple to the people all the wordes of this life.

²⁹ But Peter and the Apostles answered, and sayde: We ought more to obeye God then men.

¹⁶ For in that I preach the Gospell, I neade not boost my selfe, for I must nedes do it. And wo vnto me, yff I preach not the Gospell.

⁵ And one of the elders sayde vnto me: wepe not: Beholde, the lyon which is off the trybe of Iuda, ye rote of Dauid, hath obtayned to ope the boke, and to lowse the seue seales therof.