Deuteronomy 32:33
Their wine is the gall of snakes, and it is the incurable venom of asps.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
In Context
34‘Have not these things been stored up with me, and sealed up amid my treasures?
Cross References
Job 20:14His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.
Psalms 58:5And it is neither my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord. I have run and gone directly, without iniquity.
Jeremiah 8:14“Why are we sitting still? Assemble, and let us enter the fortified city, and let us remain silent there. For the Lord our God has brought us to silence, and he has given us the water of gall as a drink. For we have sinned against the 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 →