In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.
But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’
If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.
For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you,” declares the Lord.
the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?
They hatch adders' eggs; they weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment. For all tables are full of filthy vomit, with no space left.
The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot;
He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.
and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.
For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.
The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.” Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them.
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