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

²⁴ [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat Bitter destruction; The teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a snake; Like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

⁵ Which doesn't listen to the voice of charmers, No matter how skillful the charmer may be.

⁶ Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

¹¹ If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer's tongue.

²⁹ Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

¹⁹ As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him.

³ Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

¹⁹ For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.