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In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
So at that time, what benefit did y’all gain from the things that you* are now ashamed of? Because the outcome of those things is death.
Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.
“Look! I will send serpents among y’all, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite y’all,” says YHWH.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will y’all do at the end of it?
They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider’s web. Whoever eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.
He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
Y’all must not get drunk with wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead y’all should be filled with the Spirit,
You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.