You eat the deadly eggs of poisonous snakes, and more snakes crawl out from the eggs left to hatch. You weave spider webs,
and trust in something as frail as a spider's web--
but later it bites like a poisonous snake.
Philistines, don't be happy just because the rod that punished you is broken. That rod will become a poisonous snake, and then a flying fiery dragon.
Owls will nest there to raise their young among its shadows, while families of buzzards circle around.
You are a bunch of evil snakes, so how can you say anything good? Your words show what is in your hearts.
Many Pharisees and Sadducees also came to be baptized. But John said to them: You bunch of snakes! Who warned you to run from the coming judgment?