Jeremiah 8:17

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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; at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those that dwell therein.

18Though I would take comfort against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:6And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

Psalms 58:4(58-5) Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; they are like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ear;

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

Amos 5:19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; and went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

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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