At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
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.
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, said the LORD.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaks an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
You shall tread on the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shall you trample under feet.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived 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 cockatrice' den.