Jeremiah 8:17
Good News Translation
"Watch out!" the LORD says, "I am sending snakes among you, poisonous snakes that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you."

New Revised Standard Version
See, I am letting snakes loose among you, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
"Watch out!" the LORD says. "I'm sending poisonous snakes to attack you, and no one can stop them."

New American Bible
Yes, I will send against you poisonous snakes. Against them no charm will work when they bite you—oracle of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

I will.

Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.

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.

Amos 5:19 As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.

Amos 9:3 Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand bring them out: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

Revelation 9:19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For, their tails are like to serpents and have heads: and with them they hurt.

which.

Psalm 58:4,5 Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears: . . .

Ecclesiastes 10:11 If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

Context
Judah's Sin and Punishment
16The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan, all the land was moved at the sound of the neighing of his warriors: and they came and devoured the land, and all that was in it: the city and its inhabitants. 17For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
Cross References
Numbers 21:6
Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.

Deuteronomy 32:24
They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.

Psalm 58:4
Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:

Psalm 58:5
Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.

Ecclesiastes 10:11
If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

Jeremiah 8:16
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