Jeremiah 8:17

He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

He went out and fought against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

He said: “Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither.”

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

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

Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’

“He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you. I will bring the sword on you. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’ ”

The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.

All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’ ” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”

The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.

or a charmer, or someone who consults with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

Joshua said, “Roll large stones to cover the cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them;

It was so, that after they had carried it there, Yahweh’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumors broke out on them.

The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

But Absalom fled. The young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming by way of the hillside behind him.

When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner room.

He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.

The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and also Gimzo and its villages; and they lived there.

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, says “My people who dwell in Zion, don’t be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land.

The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabit the earth.

The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

“Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and tell them, “ ‘Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation. He will mightily roar against his fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There will be nothing of value among them.

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.

As 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.

Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

For 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.