Jeremiah 8:17

Yahweh says, “I will send those enemy soldiers to Judah, and they will be like [MET] poisonous snakes among you. No one will be able to stop them from attacking you [MET]; they will attack you like snakes do, and kill you.”

Translation for Translators

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

16People far north in Israel in the city of Dan can already hear the snorting of the horses of their enemies who are preparing to attack us. It is as though the entire land of Judah is shaking as their army approaches; they are coming to destroy our land and everything in it, the people and the cities.”

18I grieve very much for the people of Judah, and my grieving does not end. I am very sad [IDM].

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Cross References

Numbers 21:6So Yahweh sent poisonous snakes among them. Many of the people were bitten by the snakes and died.

Psalms 58:4God, show in the heavens how great you are! And show your glory to people all over the earth! What wicked people say injures people like the venom of a snake [MET]; They refuse to listen to good advice, as though they were cobras that were deaf [MET]!

Ecclesiastes 10:11If a snake bites a man before he charms/tames it, his ability to charm snakes will not benefit him.

Amos 5:19At that time, when you try to run from a lion, you will face a bear. When you run into your house to be safe, and you put your hand on a wall, it will be bitten by a snake.

Revelation 9:19The horses had power with their mouths and with their tails. Their tails have heads like snakes by which they harm people.

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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