33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, 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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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her 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 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison 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? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall 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 have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. 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 meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay 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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