Thematic Bible: Venom of


Thematic Bible



Look not thou upon the wine, how red it is, and what a color it giveth in the glass. It goeth down softly; but at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth as an adder.

They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears,


Burnt with hunger and consumed with heat and with bitter pestilence. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, and poison serpents.

Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel gall of asps.

He shall suck the serpent's gall, and the adder's tongue shall slay him:

But he shook off the vermin into the fire, and felt no harm. Howbeit, they waited when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly. But after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.