Thematic Bible: Venom of


Thematic Bible



Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly; At the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a viper.

They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,


They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague
And bitter destruction;
And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,
With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

“Their wine is the venom of serpents,
And the deadly poison of cobras.

“He sucks the poison of cobras;
The viper’s tongue slays him.

However he shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm. But they were expecting that he was about to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.