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

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They spit venom like deadly snakes;
    they are like cobras that refuse to listen,

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13 “Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave.
    Their tongues are filled with lies.”
“Snake venom drips from their lips.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:13 Pss 5:9 (Greek version); 140:3.

14 “Then the people will say,
    ‘Why should we wait here to die?
Come, let’s go to the fortified towns and die there.
    For the Lord our God has decreed our destruction
and has given us a cup of poison to drink
    because we sinned against the Lord.

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Their tongues sting like a snake;
    the venom of a viper drips from their lips. Interlude

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14 But suddenly the food in their bellies turns sour,
    a poisonous venom in their stomach.
15 They will vomit the wealth they swallowed.
    God won’t let them keep it down.
16 They will suck the poison of cobras.
    The viper will kill them.

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