Verse 17

The 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.”

Referenced Verses

• Deut 32:24 : 24 They 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.
• Ps 58:4-5 : 4 Their venom is like that of a snake, like a deaf serpent that does not hear, 5 that does not respond to the magicians, or to a skilled snake charmer.
• Eccl 10:11 : 11 If the snake should bite before it is charmed, the snake charmer is in trouble.
• Num 21:6 : 6 So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.
• 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.
• Amos 5:19 : 19 Disaster will be inescapable, as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.
• Amos 9:3 : 3 Even 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.
• Rev 9:19 : 19 For the power of the horses resides in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails are like snakes, having heads that inflict injuries.