Jeremiah 8:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

Ecclesiastes 10:11

If the serpent bite before it be charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

Isaiah 14:29

Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a basilisk, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

Amos 5:19

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

Amos 9:3

And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.

Numbers 21:6

And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

Revelation 9:19

For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them they do hurt.