Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Jeremiah 8:17
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“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
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For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
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“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says the LORD.
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For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
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Jeremiah 8
15 We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
16 The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.
17 “For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
18 My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.
19 Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
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