'Poison' in the Bible
They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.
Their wine is snakes' poison, the deadly venom of cobras.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God's sudden terrors are arrayed against me.
He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.
They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
The people say, "Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. Let us at least die there fighting, since the Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment because we have sinned against him.
So then, listen to what I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, say. 'I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.
So then I, the Lord who rules over all, have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem: 'I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reason that ungodliness has spread throughout the land.'"
(Zayin) Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.
they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them; they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well."
"Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips."
But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.