In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.
He sucks the poison of serpents; fangs of a viper kill him.
You will tread upon the lion and cobra, trample the young lion and serpent.
For each man threw down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is unwise.
At the end of your life, you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent—
Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a fence may be bitten by a snake.
A nursing child will play by a cobra’s hole, and a weaned child will put his hand into a viper’s den.
The proud crown of Ephraim’s drunks will be trampled underfoot.
They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web— whoever eats their eggs dies; crack one open, a viper breaks out.
The prophets prophesy falsely, the kohanim rule by their own authority, and My people love it this way! But what will you do in the end?”
“For I am about to send serpents on you, vipers for which there is no charm, and they will bite you.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
It will be as when a man is fleeing from a lion—and meets a bear! Or he comes home, leans his hand on the wall, and a snake bites him!
If they should hide themselves at the top of Carmel, I will search them out and take them from there. If they hide themselves from My eyes at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the sea serpent to bite them.
So then, what outcome did you have that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.
And do not get drunk on wine, for that is recklessness. Instead, be filled with the Ruach,