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Webster
For behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith 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.
Amplified
“For behold, I am sending serpents among you,
Vipers which cannot be charmed,
And they will bite you,” says the Lord.
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.
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
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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 his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein. 17 For behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Psalm 58:4-5
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Numbers 21:6
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.
Ecclesiastes 10:11
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
Isaiah 14:29
Rejoice not thou, all Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a basilisk, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Amos 5:19
As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Amos 9:3
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they are hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
Revelation 9:19
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like to serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.