Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.
They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders’ poison is under their lips. [Selah
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:
Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely.