At the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
As if a man fled 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.
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says LORD.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means. And my people love to have it so. And what will ye do in the end thereof?
They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web. He who eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot.
He who digs a pit shall fall into it, and he who breaks through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.
and thou mourn at thy latter end when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
He shall suck the poison of asps. The viper's tongue shall kill him.
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents, but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
And do not become intoxicated with wine, during which is debauchery, but be filled in Spirit,
Thou shall tread upon the lion and adder. The young lion and the serpent thou shall trample under foot.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever errs thereby is not wise.
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.