Jeremiah 8:17
Bible › Jeremiah › Chapter 8 › Verse 17
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
In other translations
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
Hebrew words
כִּיkiforH3588הִנְנִיhinihere IH2005מְשַׁלֵּחַmeshaleach[am] about to sendH7971בָּכֶםbakhemamong <the> youנְחָשִׁיםnechashimsnakesH5175צִפְעֹנִיםtzif'onimvipersH6848אֲשֶׁר'asherwhichH834אֵין־'ein-there notH369לָהֶםlahemfor <the> themלָחַשׁlachash[is] a charmH3908וְנִשְּׁכוּvenishekhuand they will biteH5391אֶתְכֶם'etkhem<obj.> youH853נְאֻם־ne'um-[the] utterance ofH5002יְהוָה׃ סyahwehYahwehH3068
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Related verses
- Psalm 58:4-54 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.4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears, 5 refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.
- Ecclesiastes 10:11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
- Deuteronomy 32:24They 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.They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
- Isaiah 14:29Rejoice 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.Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.
- Numbers 21:6And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
- Revelation 9:19For 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.For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes, having heads with which to inflict harm.
- Amos 5:19As 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.It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
- Amos 9:3And 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:Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
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