their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s, and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink because we have sinned against the Lord.
“Their throats are opened graves; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of vipers is under their lips.”
Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom, from the vineyards of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter;
Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries,