Jeremiah 8:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Deut 32:24 : 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.
  • Ps 58:4-5 : 4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear, 5 which doesn't listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.
  • Eccl 10:11 : 11 If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.
  • Num 21:6 : 6 Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.
  • 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.
  • Amos 5:19 : 19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
  • Amos 9:3 : 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.
  • Rev 9:19 : 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.

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  • 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.

  • Amos 9:3-4
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    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.

    4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.

  • 6 Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 17 and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

  • 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.

  • 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.

  • 22 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

  • 17 Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.

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

  • Jer 29:17-18
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    17 thus says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can't be eaten, they are so bad.

    18 I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them;

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

  • 11 If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.

  • 22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.

  • 33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

  • 20 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

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

  • 3 I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

  • 13 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."

  • 18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

  • 6 I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a great pestilence.

  • 10 I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

  • 8 Yahweh said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."

  • 22 The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.

  • 7 Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

  • 19 As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

  • 8 I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

  • 5 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.

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

  • 10 "I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.

  • 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.

  • 8 It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

  • 15 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

  • 16 "Thus says Yahweh, 'Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.

  • 8 Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • 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.

  • 9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • 21 Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.

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

  • 1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

  • 35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

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

  • 28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.

  • 5 Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him: