“Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the fierce venom of cobras.
They sharpen their tongues like a snake; The poison of cobras is under their lips. Selah.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
So as not to hear the voice of whisperers, Or a skilled caster of spells.
Why are we sitting still? Gather yourselves, and let us go into the walled cities, and let us be silent there. For יהוה our Elohim has let us perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against יהוה.
“Their throat is an open tomb, with their tongues they have deceived,” “The poison of adders is under their lips,”
“Their vine is of the vine of Seḏ
‘Is it not stored up with Me, Sealed up among My treasures?