KJV King James Version
Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
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Deuteronomy 32:33
Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
WEB World English Bible
Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.
ASV American Standard Version
Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The poison of dragons is their wine And the fierce venom of asps.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 32
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
31 For their rock [is] not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves [being] judges.
32 For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters [are] bitter:
33 Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
34 [Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed up among my treasures?
35 To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and [there is] none shut up, or left.
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Psalm 58:4Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;Romans 3:13Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:Psalm 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison [is] under their lips. Selah.Job 20:14-16[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.Jeremiah 8:14Why 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 sinned against the LORD.
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