Jeremiah 8:17
New Living Translation
17 I will send these enemy troops among you
like poisonous snakes you cannot charm.
They will bite you, and you will die.
I, the Lord, have spoken!”
Ecclesiastes 10:11
New Living Translation
11 If a snake bites before you charm it,
what’s the use of being a snake charmer?
Psalm 58:4-5
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4 They spit venom like deadly snakes;
they are like cobras that refuse to listen,
5 ignoring the tunes of the snake charmers,
no matter how skillfully they play.
Deuteronomy 32:24
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24 I will weaken them with famine,
burning fever, and deadly disease.
I will send the fangs of wild beasts
and poisonous snakes that glide in the dust.
Numbers 21:6
New Living Translation
6 So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and many were bitten and died.
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Revelation 9:19
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19 Their power was in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails had heads like snakes, with the power to injure people.
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Amos 9:3
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3 Even if they hide at the very top of Mount Carmel,
I will search them out and capture them.
Even if they hide at the bottom of the ocean,
I will send the sea serpent after them to bite them.
Amos 5:19
New Living Translation
19 In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion—
only to meet a bear.
Escaping from the bear, he leans his hand against a wall in his house—
and he’s bitten by a snake.
Isaiah 14:29
New Living Translation
29 Do not rejoice, you Philistines,
that the rod that struck you is broken—
that the king who attacked you is dead.
For from that snake a more poisonous snake will be born,
a fiery serpent to destroy you!
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