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Jeremiah 8:17

American Standard Version

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 8:17 in other translations

“For, behold, I will send serpents,
adders among you,
which will not be charmed;
and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 8:17 · World English Bible

Jeremiah 8:17 in context

  1. 15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
  2. 16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those that dwell therein.
  3. 17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
  4. 18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
  5. 19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?