Jeremiah 8:17

Jeremiah chapter 8 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

Context

v.16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those that dwell therein.

v.17This passage

v.18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Amos 9:3

    And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

  • Ecclesiastes 10:11

    If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.

  • Isaiah 14:29

    Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

  • Psalms 58:4

    Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,

  • Amos 5:19

    As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

  • Numbers 21:6

    And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.