Thematic Bible: Venom of


Thematic Bible



Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down: In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;


They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.

He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

But shaking off the beast into the fire, he got no damage. But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain