Isaiah 59:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; whoever eats their eggs dies, and the crushed egg hatches out a viper.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats of their eggs dies, and [from an egg] which is crushed a viper breaks out [for their nature is ruinous, deadly, evil].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

Common English Bible

⁵ They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave spiderwebs. Whoever eats their eggs will die. Moreover, the crushed egg hatches a viper.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ They have ruptured the eggs of asps, and they have woven the webs of spiders. Whoever will eat of their eggs will die. For what has been incubated will hatch into a king snake.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ They have broken the eggs of asps and have woven the webs of spiders. He that shall eat of their eggs shall die: and that which is brought out shall be hatched into a basilisk.

Isaiah 59:5 Cross References

Job 8:14

Their confidence is gossamer, a spider’s house their trust.

Proverbs 23:32

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

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.

Isaiah 34:15

There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow; there also the buzzards shall gather, each one with its mate.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 3:7

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