Deuteronomy 32:33
Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
In Context
34Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?
Cross References
Job 20:14His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him.
Psalms 58:5Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to 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 →