Isaiah 11:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder’s den.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And the sucking child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.

Common English Bible

⁸ A nursing child will play over the snake’s hole; toddlers will reach right over the serpent’s den.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And a breastfeeding infant will play above the lair of the asp. And a child who has been weaned will thrust his hand into the den of the king snake.

Isaiah 11:8 Cross References

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; whoever eats their eggs dies, and the crushed egg hatches out a viper.

Psalm 140:3

They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s, and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah

Proverbs 23:32

At the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

Isaiah 11:7

The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Isaiah 11:9

They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the root of the snake will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.

Job 5:23

For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild animals shall be at peace with you.