Deuteronomy 32:33
Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
In Context
34Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
Cross References
Job 20:14yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is the gall of asps within him.
Psalms 58:5which hearkens not to the voice of charmers, charming ever so wisely.
Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against LORD.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:27-39
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 30 How should one chase a thousand,… Read the whole commentary →