Their poison is like the venom of a serpent;
They are like the deaf horned viper that stops up its ear,

When my heart was embittered
And I was pierced within [as with the fang of an adder],

You will tread upon the lion and cobra;
The young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

At the last it bites like a serpent
And stings like a viper.

And the nursing child will [safely] play over the hole of the cobra,
And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den [and not be hurt].

“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.

They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s webs;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from an egg which is crushed a viper breaks out.

“For behold, I am sending serpents among you,
Vipers which cannot be charmed,
And they will bite you,” says the Lord.