At the last it bites like an asp and stings like an adder.
What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
And if they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And if they are hidden from My sight in the bottom of the sea, I will command the serpent there, and he shall bite them.
as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
For, behold, I will send serpents and adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Jehovah.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do at the end of it?
They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trampled under foot;
He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoever breaks a hedge, a snake shall bite him.
and you moan when your end comes, when your flesh and muscle are eaten away,
He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.
For each man threw down his rod, and they became snakes. But Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,
You shall tread on the lion and adder; the young lion and the jackal You shall trample underfoot.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever goes astray by it is not wise.
And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.