Jeremiah 8:17
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
In context
15 We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
16 The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.
17 “For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
18 My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.
19 Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
Jeremiah 8:17 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- “For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
- KJV 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- “For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says the LORD.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah.
- DBY Darby Translation
- For behold, I send among you serpents, vipers against which there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.