“For, behold, I will send serpents,adders among you,which will not be charmed;and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.”
Jeremiah 8:17 (WEB)
Context Reading
15We looked for peace, but no good came;and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay! 16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan.The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones;for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it,the city and those who dwell therein.” 17“For, behold, I will send serpents,adders among you,which will not be charmed;and they will bite you,” says Yahweh. 18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow!My heart is faint within me. 19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off:“Isn’t Yahweh in Zion?Isn’t her King in her?”“Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images,and with foreign idols?”