Rejoice not, all Philistia, because the rod of him that struck you is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay eggs, and hatch, and gather her young under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said to them, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?