Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
Parallel translations
- KJV Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
- BSB Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
- NKJV Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of cobras.
- NASB “Their wine is the venom of serpents, And the deadly poison of vipers.
- NLT Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ps 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
- Rom 3:13“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;
- Job 20:14–16yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
- Jer 8:14“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
- Ps 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.
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