KJV 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.
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Jeremiah 8:17
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
WEB World English Bible
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.
ASV American Standard Version
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 8
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 sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, [and] with strange vanities?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כִּי֩H3588 · kiforהִנְנִ֨יH2005 · henlook!מְשַׁלֵּ֜חַH7971 · sha.lachto send: departבָּכֶ֗םH9036 · khemyouנְחָשִׁים֙H5175 · na.chashserpentצִפְעֹנִ֔יםH6848 · tse.pahserpentאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichאֵין־H369 · a.yinnothingלָהֶ֖םH9038 · hemthemלָ֑חַשׁH3908 · la.chashcharmוְנִשְּׁכ֥וּH5391 · na.shakhto biteאֶתְכֶ֖םH853 · et[Obj.]נְאֻם־H5002 · ne.umutteranceיְהוָֽה׃ סH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORD
Cross-references
Ecclesiastes 10:11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.Deuteronomy 32:24[They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.Psalm 58:4-5Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;Isaiah 14:29Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit [shall be] a fiery flying serpent.Numbers 21:6And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.Revelation 9:19For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails [were] like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.Amos 9:3And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:Amos 5:19As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
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