Isaiah 11:8
Good News Translation
Even a baby will not be harmed if it plays near a poisonous snake.

New Revised Standard Version
The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder’s den.

Contemporary English Version
Little children will play near snake holes. They will stick their hands into dens of poisonous snakes and never be hurt.

New American Bible
The baby shall play by the viper’s den, and the child lay his hand on the adder’s lair.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sucking child shall play on other hole of the asp: and the weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the sucking child shall play on other hole of the asp: and the weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk.

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Isaiah 59:5 They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk.

Psalm 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.

Context
The Root of Jesse
7The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8And the sucking child shall play on other hole of the asp: and the weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk.9They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain, for the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering waters of the sea.…
Cross References
Proverbs 23:32
But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.

Isaiah 11:7
The calf and the bear shall feed: their young ones shall rest together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

Isaiah 11:9
They shall not hurt, nor shall they kill in all my holy mountain, for the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the covering waters of the sea.

Isaiah 14:29
Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of him that struck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root of the serpent shall come forth a basilisk, and his seed shall swallow the bird.

Isaiah 11:7
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