Parallel Verses
Amplified
“For behold, I am sending serpents among you,
Vipers which cannot be charmed,
And they will bite you,” says the Lord.
New American Standard Bible
Adders, for which there is
And they will bite you,” declares the Lord.
King James Version
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
Holman Bible
poisonous vipers
They will bite you.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
International Standard Version
Look, I'll send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they'll bite you."
A Conservative Version
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says LORD.
American Standard Version
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.
Darby Translation
For behold, I send among you serpents, vipers against which there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
Julia Smith Translation
For behold me sending serpents, vipers among you, which to them no hissing, and they bit you, says Jehovah.
King James 2000
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For look, I [am] letting loose among you snakes, adders for which there is no incantation, and they will bite you," {declares} Yahweh.
Modern King James verseion
For, behold, I will send serpents and adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Jehovah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Moreover, I will send Cockatrices and serpents among you which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you," sayeth the LORD.
NET Bible
The Lord says, "Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you."
New Heart English Bible
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you," says the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
For behold me! sending among you serpents - vipers which there is no charming, - And they shall fatally bite you declareth Yahweh.
Webster
For behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
World English Bible
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.
Youngs Literal Translation
For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah.
Interlinear
Shalach
Lachash
References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 8:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Nation Longs For Yahweh's Help
16
The snorting of [Nebuchadnezzar’s] horses is heard from Dan [on Palestine’s northern border].
At the sound of the neighing of his strong stallions
The whole land quakes;
For they come and devour the land and all that is in it,
The city and those who live in it.
“For behold, I am sending serpents among you,
Vipers which cannot be charmed,
And they will bite you,” says the Lord.
Oh, that I (Jeremiah) could find comfort from my sorrow [for my grief is beyond healing],
My heart is sick and faint within me!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24
‘They will be wasted by hunger, and consumed by plague
And a bitter destruction;
And I will send the teeth of beasts against them,
With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
Psalm 58:4-5
Their poison is like the venom of a serpent;
They are like the deaf horned viper that stops up its ear,
Numbers 21:6
Then the Lord sent fiery (burning) serpents among the people; and they bit the people, and many Israelites died.
Ecclesiastes 10:11
If the serpent bites before being charmed, then there is no profit for the charmer.
Isaiah 14:29
“Do not rejoice, O Philistia, any of you,
Because the rod [of Judah] that struck you is broken;
For out of the serpent’s root will come a viper [King Hezekiah of Judah],
And its offspring will be a flying serpent.
Amos 5:19
It is as if a man runs from a lion [escaping one danger]
And a bear meets him [so he dies anyway],
Or goes home, and leans with his hand against the wall
And a snake bites him.
Amos 9:3
“Though they hide on the summit of [Mount] Carmel,
I will track them down and take them from there;
And though they hide from My sight on the floor of the sea,
From there I shall command the serpent and it will bite them.
Revelation 9:19
For the power of the horses [to do harm] is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and it is with them that they do harm.