Jeremiah 8:17

“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says the LORD.

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

18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:6The LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

Psalms 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Ecclesiastes 10:11If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

Amos 5:19As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

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

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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