Jeremiah 8:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.”
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““For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 8:17 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 21:6So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
- Deuteronomy 32:24They 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.
- Psalms 58:4Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
- Psalms 58:6O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
- Ecclesiastes 10:11If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
- Isaiah 14:29Do 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.
- Amos 5:19It 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 9:3Though 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.
- Revelation 9:19For 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.
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