Venom of serpents is their wine— poison of vipers so cruel.
who devise evil in their heart— every day they stir up wars.
The wicked are strangers from the womb. Speaking lies, they go astray from birth.
Their venom is like a serpent’s venom, like a deaf cobra shutting its ear—
“Why are we sitting here? Assemble! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For Adonai Eloheinu has silenced us and given us poisoned water to drink. For we have sinned against Adonai.
Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they keep deceiving. The poison of vipers is under their lips.
For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the terraces of Gomorrah. Its grapes are grapes of poison— bitter clusters on it.
Is it not stored up with Me, sealed up in My treasuries?