The poison of dragons `is' their wine And the fierce venom of asps.
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder `is' under their lips. Selah.
Their poison `is' as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
Wherefore are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced cities, And we are silent there, For Jehovah our God hath made us silent, Yea, He causeth us to drink water of gall, For we have sinned against Jehovah.
A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips.
For of the vine of Sodom their vine `is', And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes `are' grapes of gall -- They have bitter clusters;
Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?