The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
⛓ Read Amos 3 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken; who can but prophesy?' supplies the prophetic axiom of irresistible commission underlying Paul's 'necessity is laid on me' (v.16). Recurrence of the compelled-to-prophesy theme across Amos and Jeremiah strengthens availability; medium volume, contested against the closer inner-compulsion of Jer 20:9.
Medium confidence'The lion has roared; who will not fear?' supplies the prophetic lion-roar simile and its link to inescapable prophetic speech (cf. v.7 prophets). Coheres with the immediately following 'as a lion roars.'
Medium confidence