Verse 17

See, I am sending venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you, declares the LORD.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:24 : 24 Wasted by famine, consumed by burning heat and bitter destruction, I will send against them the teeth of wild animals and the venom of creatures that crawl in the dust.
  • Ps 58:4-5 : 4 Even from birth, the wicked are estranged; from the womb, they go astray, speaking lies. 5 Their venom is like the venom of a serpent, like that of a deaf cobra that stops its ears.
  • Eccl 10:11 : 11 If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
  • Num 21:6 : 6 Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.
  • Isa 14:29 : 29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistia, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the root of the serpent will emerge a viper, and its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent.
  • Amos 5:19 : 19 It will be as if a man flees from a lion, only to be met by a bear; or as if he enters his house, rests his hand on the wall, and a snake bites him.
  • Amos 9:3 : 3 'If they hide themselves on the top of Mount Carmel, from there I will search them out and seize them. If they conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.'
  • Rev 9:19 : 19 For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; their tails were like snakes with heads, and they used them to harm.