"At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."
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And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
In the end, it bites like a snake, And poisons like a viper.
Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.