Jeremiah 8:17

Modern

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

Traditional

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

Literal

“For behold, I am sending you among serpents—vipers that there is not unto them a charm, and they will bite you,” a declaration of YHWH.

Latin

Quia ecce ego mittam vobis serpentes regulos, quibus non est incantatio: et mordebunt vos, ait Dominus.

Hebrew

English

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

These three short poems were likely shared during the reign of Jehoiakim.

Psalm 58:4–5
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
Ecclesiastes 10:11
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
Deuteronomy 32:24
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.
Numbers 21:6
So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
Isaiah 14:29
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
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.
Revelation 9:19
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.
Amos 9:3
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.