24 I will send wasting famine(A) against them,
    consuming pestilence(B) and deadly plague;(C)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(D)
    the venom of vipers(E) that glide in the dust.(F)

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33 Their wine is the venom of serpents,
    the deadly poison of cobras.(A)

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16 He will suck the poison(A) of serpents;
    the fangs of an adder will kill him.(B)

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Their venom is like the venom of a snake,(A)
    like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,

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They make their tongues as sharp as(A) a serpent’s;
    the poison of vipers(B) is on their lips.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 140:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 8.

31 Do not gaze at wine when it is red,
    when it sparkles in the cup,
    when it goes down smoothly!

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