Isaiah 59:5

Authorized King James Version (1611)

They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 8:14 : 14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.
  • Prov 23:32 : 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
  • Isa 14:29 : 29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery flying serpent.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 ¶ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 ‹O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.›

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 59:6-7
    2 verses
    84%

    6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works [are] works of iniquity, and the act of violence [is] in their hands.

    7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.

  • 4None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  • Ps 58:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

    4Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;

  • 8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

  • 16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

  • 17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

  • Job 39:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

    15And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

  • 33Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

  • 28The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

  • 35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

  • 14Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.

  • Prov 1:16-18
    3 verses
    68%

    16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

    17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

    18And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.

  • Jer 5:26-27
    2 verses
    68%

    26For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

    27As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

  • 29Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery flying serpent.

  • 15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

  • 13Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:

  • 15There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

  • 14[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.

  • 3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah.

  • 24[They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

  • 30Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain [are], there [is] she.

  • 5They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

  • 8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

  • 32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

  • 15Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:

  • 46He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

  • 16Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.

  • 5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

  • 5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  • 14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • 9Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

  • 12[For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying [which] they speak.

  • 15The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

  • 16Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their meat plenteous.

  • 17They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

  • 19And every creeping thing that flieth [is] unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

  • 11[As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

  • Prov 4:16-17
    2 verses
    65%

    16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • 14¶ And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

  • 4That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

  • 3And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

  • 14And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs [that are] left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

  • 41And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth [shall be] an abomination; it shall not be eaten.