Jeremiah 8:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Deut 32:24 : 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.
  • Ps 58:4-5 : 4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
  • Eccl 10:11 : 11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
  • Num 21:6 : 6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
  • 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.
  • Amos 5:19 : 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
  • Amos 9:3 : 3 And 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:
  • Rev 9:19 : 19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails [were] like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

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  • Deut 32:24
    76%

    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.

  • Amos 9:3-4
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    75%

    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:

    4And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

  • Num 21:6
    75%

    6And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

  • Isa 14:29
    75%

    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.

  • Jer 8:16
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    16The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

  • Isa 11:8
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    8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

  • Ezek 5:17
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    17So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken [it].

  • Rev 9:19
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    19For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails [were] like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

  • Nah 3:15
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    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.

  • Jer 46:22
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    22The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

  • Gen 49:17
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    17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

  • Job 20:16
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    16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

  • Jer 29:17-18
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    17Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

    18And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

  • Prov 23:32
    72%

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

  • Eccl 10:11
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    11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

  • Lev 26:22
    72%

    22I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your [high] ways shall be desolate.

  • Matt 23:33
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  • Deut 7:20
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    20Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

  • Ps 58:4
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    4Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;

  • Jer 15:3
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    3And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

  • Nah 2:13
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    13Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

  • Jer 8:18
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    18[When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.

  • Jer 21:6
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    6And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

  • Jer 24:10
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    10And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

  • Num 21:8
    71%

    8And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

  • Jer 10:22
    71%

    22Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, [and] a den of dragons.

  • Hab 2:7
    71%

    7Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

  • Amos 5:19
    71%

    19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

  • Jer 19:8
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    8And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

  • Isa 59:5
    71%

    5They 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.

  • Eccl 10:8
    71%

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

  • Amos 4:10
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    10I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

  • Mic 7:17
    71%

    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.

  • Jer 27:8
    71%

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  • Jer 9:15
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    15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
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    16Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, [even] all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:

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  • Gen 3:14
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  • Ps 140:3
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  • Exod 23:28
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    28And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

  • Mic 3:5
    69%

    5Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.