17"See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you," declares the Lord .


In Context

14 "Why are we sitting here? Gather together! Let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there! For the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against him.

15 We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there was only terror.

16 The snorting of the enemy's horses is heard from Dan; at the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles. They have come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who live there."

17 "See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you," declares the Lord .

18 O my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

19 Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: "Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?"

Jeremiah 8:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:17For behold I will send among you serpents, basilisks, against which there is no charm: and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:17For behold, I send among you serpents, vipers against which there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, basilisks, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:17For behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:17For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, said the LORD.