Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.
The poison of dragons is their wine And the fierce venom of asps.
Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of vipers.
Deuteronomy — Moses' farewell sermons on the plains of Moab. The covenant renewed for the generation about to cross — with the Shema at its heart and Moses' song on its lips.
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but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.
The walk8
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Romans 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
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They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
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For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
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Psalms 140:3They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
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Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
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Jeremiah 8:14Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink,…
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Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout…
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Their wine is the poison of dragons,.... Of these creatures, both land and sea dragons; see Gill on Mic 1:8; See Gill on Mal 1:3; Pliny says (l) the dragon has no poison in it; yet, as Dalechamp, in his notes on that writer observes, he in many places prescribes remedies against the bite of the dragon; but Heliodorus (m) expressly speaks of some archers, whose arrows were infected with the poison of dragons; and Leo Africanus (n) says, the Atlantic dragons are exceeding poisonous: and yet other writers (o) besides Pliny have asserted that they are free from poison.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Their wine - Their system of doctrines and teaching, is the poison of dragons, etc., fatal and destructive to all them who follow it.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
God would soon have subdued their enemies ( Ps. lxxxi. 14 ), but that the wickedness of Israel delivered them into their hands. For their vine, that is, Israel's, is of the vine of Sodom,
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
They were planted a choice vine, wholly a right seed, but by sin had become the degenerate plant of a strange vine ( Jer. ii. 21 ), and not only transcribed the iniquity of Sodom, but outdid it, Ezek. xvi.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
A promise of the destruction of their enemies and oppressors at last, and the glorious deliverance of a remnant of Israel,
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
