World English Bible
Jeremiah 8:17
“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 8
We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein.
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?
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