Jeremiah 8:17 ““For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charm…”

Jeremiah 8:17

“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

For beholde, I will sende serpents, and cockatrices among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall sting you, sayth the Lord.

Darby Translation

For behold, I send among you serpents, vipers against which there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.

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Cross references

“I will”

Deuteronomy 32:24 Isaiah 14:29 Amos 5:19 Amos 9:3 Revelation 9:19

Deuteronomy 32:24 · BSB

They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

Isaiah 14:29 · BSB

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

Amos 5:19 · BSB

It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

Amos 9:3 · BSB

Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

Revelation 9:19 · BSB

For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes, having heads with which to inflict harm.

“which”

Ecclesiastes 10:11 Psalm 58:4 Psalm 58:5

Ecclesiastes 10:11 · BSB

If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.

Psalm 58:4 · BSB

Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,

Psalm 58:5 · BSB

refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.

Also

Numbers 21:6

Numbers 21:6 · BSB

So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.

18My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

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