Jeremiah 8:17

For behold, I send among you serpents, vipers against which there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: the whole land trembleth at the sound of the neighing of his steeds, and they come, and devour the land, and all it contains, the city and those that dwell therein.

18My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!

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Cross References

Numbers 21:6Then Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, which bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

Psalms 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;

Ecclesiastes 10:11If the serpent bite before enchantment, then the charmer hath no advantage.

Amos 5:19as if a man fled 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.

Revelation 9:19For the power of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails: for their tails [are] like serpents, having heads, and with them they injure.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:14-22

Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. ( b. c. 606.) 13 I will surely consume them, saith the Lord : there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have… Read the whole commentary →

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