Vipers

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.

They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

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

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

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”