at its last it bites like a snake, and it stings like a viper.
He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
You shall tread on the lion and adder; the young lion and the serpent You shall trample under foot.
And they each man threw down his staff, and they became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs.
Wine is a mocker, strong liquor is stirring, and each one straying by it is not being wise.
and you groan when your end comes, when your flesh and muscle are used up,
He who digs a pit may fall into it; and one breaking a wall, a snake may bite him.
And the suckling shall play on the hole of the snake; yea, the weaned child shall put his hand on the viper’s den.
The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trampled down by feet.
They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web; he who eats their eggs dies; and that which is crushed hatches out a viper.
the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their hands; and My people love it so, and what will they do at the end of it?
For behold, I, even I will send serpents among you, vipers for which there is no charm; and they will bite you, a statement of Jehovah.
As when a man fled before a lion, and the bear met him. Or he goes into the house and leans his hand against the wall, and a snake bites him.
And if they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And if they hide from My eyes in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and he will bite them.
Therefore what fruit did you have then over the things which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
And “do not be drunk with wine,” in which is debauchery, but be filled by the Spirit, Prov. 23:31