Jeremiah 8:17

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

Leeser Tanakh

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

16From Dan was heard the snorting of his horses; at the sound of the neighing of his war-steeds trembleth the whole land: and they are come, and devour the land, and all that filleth it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

18When I would cheer myself up against sorrow, my heart within me is pained.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:6And the Lord let loose against the people poisonous serpents, and they bit the people; and there died much people of Israel.

Psalms 58:4(58:5) They have poison like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

Ecclesiastes 10:11If the serpent do bite because no one uttered a charm, then hath the man that can use his tongue [in charming] no preference.—

Amos 5:19As if a man were to flee from a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he enter into the house, and lean his hand against the wall, and a serpent should bite 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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