Jeremiah 8:17

For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

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 hath been heard the snorting of his horses, From the voice of the neighings of his mighty ones, Trembled hath all the land, And they come in and consume the land and its fulness, The city and the inhabitants in it.

18My refreshing for me [is] sorrow, For me my heart [is] sick.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:6And Jehovah sendeth among the people the burning serpents, and they bite the people, and much people of Israel die;

Psalms 58:4Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

Ecclesiastes 10:11If the serpent biteth without enchantment, Then there is no advantage to a master of the tongue.

Amos 5:19As [when] one fleeth from the face of the lion, And the bear hath met him, And he hath come in to the house, And hath leant his hand on the wall, And the serpent hath bitten him.

Revelation 9:19for their authorities are in their mouth, and in their tails, for their tails [are] like serpents, having heads, and with them they do 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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