Jeremiah 8:17

For behold me! sending among you serpents—vipers which there is no charming,—And they shall fatally bite you declareth Yahweh.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 chargers, the whole land trembled,—Yea they came in and did sat up The land and the fulness thereof, The city, and them who were dwelling therein.

18When I would have cheered myself against sorrow, Against me, mine own heart sickened:—

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Cross References

Numbers 21:6And Yahweh sent among the people the poisonous serpents, and they bit the people,—and much people out of Israel died.

Psalms 58:4Their poison, is like unto the poison of a serpent, Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth his ear;

Ecclesiastes 10:11If a serpent will bite, unless he is charmed, then there is nothing better for him that owneth a tongue.

Amos 5:19As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and there should meet him—a bear! or he should have entered the house, and leaned his hand upon the wall, and there should bite him—a serpent!

Revelation 9:19for, the licence of the horses, is, in their mouth, and in their tails, for, their tails, are like unto serpents, having heads, and, with them, they injure.

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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