Jeremiah 8:17

WEB

¹⁷“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says the LORD.

KJV

¹⁷For, behold, I will send^[+] serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

BSB

¹⁷“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.

FBV

¹⁷Watch out! I'm sending snakes among you, vipers that can't be charmed. They will come and bite you, declares the Lord.

Extra References

Ecclesiastes 10:11

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

Deuteronomy 32:24

²⁴They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

Psalms 58:4-5

⁴Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear, ⁵which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

Numbers 21:6

⁶The LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

Isaiah 14:29

²⁹Don’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 9:3

³Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from 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.

Revelation 9:19

¹⁹For 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.

Amos 5:19

¹⁹As 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.