Jeremiah 8:17

For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 horse was heard from Dan, all the land was moved at the sound of the neighing of his warriors: and they came and devoured the land, and all that was in it: the city and its inhabitants.

18My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:6Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.

Psalms 58:4The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

Ecclesiastes 10:11If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

Amos 5:19As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

Revelation 9:19For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For, their tails are like to serpents, and have heads: and with them they hurt.

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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