Isaiah 59:5
They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 8:14 : 14 Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
- Prov 23:32 : 32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
- Isa 14:29 : 29 Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.
- Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
- Matt 12:34 : 34 You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.
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6 Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
7 Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.
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4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
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3 The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;
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8 And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake.
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16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
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17 See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.
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14 Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?
15 Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?
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33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.
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28 You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings' houses.
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35 Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.
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14 Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
- Prov 1:16-183 verses68%
16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.
17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
18 And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
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26 For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
27 As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
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29 Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.
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15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.
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13 Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:
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15 The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.
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14 His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
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3 Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
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24 They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.
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30 Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high?
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5 They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,
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8 He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.
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32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
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15 Their feet are quick in running after blood;
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46 He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.
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16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.
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5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
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5 Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.
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14 That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.
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9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!
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12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,
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15 The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.
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16 For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.
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17 They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.
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19 Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.
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11 Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
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16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
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14 And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:
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4 What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.
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3 Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:
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14 And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.
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41 Everything which goes flat on its body on the earth is disgusting, and is not to be used for food.