Isaiah 59:5
They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, a poisonous snake is hatched.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 8:14 : 14 whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider’s web.
- Prov 23:32 : 32 Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.
- Isa 14:29 : 29 Don’t be so happy, all you Philistines, just because the club that beat you has been broken! For a viper will grow out of the serpent’s root, and its fruit will be a darting adder.
- Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
- Matt 12:34 : 34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
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- Isa 59:6-72 verses84%
6Their webs cannot be used for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are sinful; they commit violent crimes.
7They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.
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4No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.
- Ps 58:3-42 verses73%
3The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.
4Their venom is like that of a snake, like a deaf serpent that does not hear,
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8A baby will play over the hole of a snake; over the nest of a serpent an infant will put his hand.
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16He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.
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17The LORD says,“Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.”
- Job 39:14-152 verses70%
14For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and lets them be warmed on the soil.
15She forgets that a foot might crush them, or that a wild animal might trample them.
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33Their wine is snakes’ poison, the deadly venom of cobras.
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28a lizard you can catch with the hand, but it gets into the palaces of the king.
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35They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception.”
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14whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider’s web.
- Prov 1:16-183 verses68%
16for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.
17Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,
18but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!
- Jer 5:26-272 verses68%
26“Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.
27Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.
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29Don’t be so happy, all you Philistines, just because the club that beat you has been broken! For a viper will grow out of the serpent’s root, and its fruit will be a darting adder.
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15There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would.The Assyrian Defenders Will Flee Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!
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13“Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”
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15Owls will make nests and lay eggs there; they will hatch them and protect them. Yes, hawks will gather there, each with its mate.
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14his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.
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3Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper’s venom is behind their lips.(Selah)
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24They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.
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30And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is.”
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5They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast,“Who will see them?”
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8Wisdom is Needed to Avert Dangers in Everyday Life One who digs a pit may fall into it, and one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
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32Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.
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15“Their feet are swift to shed blood,
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46He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
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16All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.
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5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
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5One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.
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14See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies–
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9The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.
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12They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!
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15The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.
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16Because of his success he offers sacrifices to his throw net and burns incense to his dragnet; for because of them he has plenty of food, and more than enough to eat.
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17They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the LORD our God; they will be terrified of you.
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19And any swarming winged thing is impure to you– they may not be eaten.
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11The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”
- Prov 4:16-172 verses65%
16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
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14The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
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4What the gazam-locust left the‘arbeh-locust consumed, what the‘arbeh-locust left the yeleq-locust consumed, and what the yeleq-locust left the hasil-locust consumed!
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3Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them.
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14My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest, as one gathers up abandoned eggs, I gathered up the whole earth. There was no wing flapping, or open mouth chirping.”
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41Every swarming thing that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten.