Isaiah 59:5

World English Bible (2000)

They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 8:14 : 14 Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
  • Prov 23:32 : 32 In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
  • Isa 14:29 : 29 Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

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  • Isa 59:6-7
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    84%

    6 Their 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.

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

  • 4 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  • Ps 58:3-4
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    73%

    3 The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

    4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

  • 8 The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den.

  • 16 He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

  • 17 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.

  • Job 39:14-15
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    70%

    14 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,

    15 and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild animal may trample them.

  • 33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.

  • 28 You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings' palaces.

  • 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."

  • 14 Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.

  • Prov 1:16-18
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    68%

    16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

    17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

    18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Jer 5:26-27
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    26 For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

    27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

  • 29 Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

  • 15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

  • 13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

  • 15 The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.

  • 14 yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

  • 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • 24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

  • 30 His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there he is."

  • 5 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

  • 8 He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

  • 32 In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

  • 15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.

  • 46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

  • 16 Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

  • 5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

  • 5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  • 14 Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • 9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

  • 12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

  • 15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

  • 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.

  • 17 They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.

  • 19 All winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.

  • 11 As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

  • Prov 4:16-17
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    16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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

  • 14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

  • 4 What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

  • 3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

  • 14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped."

  • 41 "'Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.