At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
What fruit had you then in those things of which you 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 from there; and though they are hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and it 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, adders, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their own power; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
They hatch viper’s eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under foot:
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whosoever breaks through a wall, 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, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
You shall tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the serpent shall you trample under feet.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
And the nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.