THEOSISJeremiah 8:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
כִּי֩ הִנְנִ֨י מְשַׁלֵּ֜חַ בָּכֶ֗ם נְחָשִׁים֙ צִפְעֹנִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֵין־לָהֶ֖ם לָ֑חַשׁ וְנִשְּׁכ֥וּ אֶתְכֶ֖ם נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Eccl 10:11If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.
- Deut 32:24They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.
- Ps 58 (57):4
- Ps 58 (57):5
- Num 21:6Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.
- Isa 14:29Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of him that struck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root of the serpent shall come forth a basilisk, and his seed shall swallow the bird.
- Rev 9:19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For, their tails are like to serpents and have heads: and with them they hurt.
- Amos 5:19As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him: or enter into the house, and lean with his hand upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.