Jeremiah 8:17

For, behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

16We shall hear the neighing of his swift horses out of Dan: the whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of his horses; and he shall come, and devour the land and the fullness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.

18mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:6And the Lord sent among the people deadly serpents, and they bit the people, and much people of the children of Israel died.

Psalms 58:4For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; 1 Violent men have set upon me: 1 Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord. 1

Ecclesiastes 10:11If a serpent bite when there is no charmer’s whisper, 1 Then there is no advantage to the charmer. 1

Amos 5:19As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon 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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