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

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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 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 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 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 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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