Deuteronomy 32:33
Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
In Context
34“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up amongst my treasures?
Cross References
Job 20:14yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
Psalms 58:5which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skilful the charmer may be.
Jeremiah 8:14“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:27-39
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this. 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 30 How should one chase a thousand,… Read the whole commentary →