Isaiah 59:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; whoever eats their eggs dies, and the crushed egg hatches out a viper.

Cross References

Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the root of the snake will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.

Proverbs 23:32

At the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

Job 8:14

Their confidence is gossamer, a spider’s house their trust.

Isaiah 34:15

There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow; there also the buzzards shall gather, each one with its mate.