33 their wine is the poison of (A)serpents
    and the cruel venom of asps.

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33 Their wine is the venom of serpents,
    the deadly poison of cobras.(A)

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(A)They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
    like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

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Their venom is like the venom of a snake,(A)
    like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,

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13 (A)“Their throat is (B)an open grave;
    they use their tongues to deceive.”
(C)“The venom of asps is under their lips.”

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13 “Their throats are open graves;
    their tongues practice deceit.”[a](A)
“The poison of vipers is on their lips.”[b](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:13 Psalm 5:9
  2. Romans 3:13 Psalm 140:3

14 Why do we sit still?
(A)Gather together; (B)let us go into the fortified cities
    and perish there,
for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
    and has (C)given us (D)poisoned water to drink,
    because we have sinned against the Lord.

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14 Why are we sitting here?
    Gather together!
Let us flee to the fortified cities(A)
    and perish there!
For the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
    and given us poisoned water(B) to drink,
    because we have sinned(C) against him.

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They make (A)their tongue sharp as (B)a serpent's,
    and (C)under their lips is the (D)venom of asps. Selah

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They make their tongues as sharp as(A) a serpent’s;
    the poison of vipers(B) is on their lips.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 140:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 8.

14 yet his food is turned in his stomach;
    it is the venom of (A)cobras within him.
15 He swallows down riches and vomits them up again;
    God casts them out of his belly.
16 He will suck the poison of cobras;
    (B)the tongue of a viper will kill him.

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14 yet his food will turn sour in his stomach;(A)
    it will become the venom of serpents(B) within him.
15 He will spit out the riches(C) he swallowed;
    God will make his stomach vomit(D) them up.
16 He will suck the poison(E) of serpents;
    the fangs of an adder will kill him.(F)

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