Jeremiah 8:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you,” says the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ See, I’m sending serpents against you, vipers that you can’t charm, and they will bite you, declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ For behold, I will send among you serpents, king snakes, against which there is no charm, and they will bite you, says the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ For, behold, I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:17 Cross References

Psalm 58:6

O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!

Ecclesiastes 10:11

If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.

Isaiah 14:29

“Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod which smote you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying serpent.

Amos 5:19

as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned with his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.

Amos 9:3

Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search out and take them; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

Numbers 21:6

Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.

Deuteronomy 32:24

they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence; and I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with venom of crawling things of the dust.

Revelation 9:19

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like serpents, with heads, and by means of them they wound.