However, if you continually bite and devour one another, ¹  beware that you are not consumed ²  by one another.

The Lord says, ¹  “Yes indeed, ²  I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. ³  And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.” ⁴ 

One who digs a pit may ¹  fall into it, and one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake. ² 

If the snake should bite before it is charmed, ¹  the snake charmer ²  is in trouble. ³ 

Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me ¹  at the bottom of the sea, from there ²  I would command the Sea Serpent ³  to bite them.

This is what the Lord says: “The prophets who mislead my people are as good as dead. ¹  If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. ²  But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him. ³ 

Your creditors will suddenly attack; ¹  those who terrify you will spring into action, ²  and they will rob you. ³ 

When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, ¹  and tried to bite me. ² 

Yes, ¹  my spirit was bitter, ²  and my insides felt sharp pain. ³ 

Afterward ¹  it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper.

Disaster will be inescapable, ¹  as if a man ran from a lion only to meet a bear, then escaped ²  into a house, leaned his hand against the wall, and was bitten by a poisonous snake.

They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full. ¹ 

For I tell you, not one of those individuals ¹  who were invited ²  will taste my banquet!’” ³ 

Philip replied, ¹  “Two hundred silver coins worth ²  of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little.”

Beware of the dogs, ¹  beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh! ² 

Sell me food for cash ¹  so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. ²  Just allow me to go through on foot,

As she went to get it, he called out to her, “Please bring me a piece of bread.” ¹ 

The king’s terrifying anger ¹  is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him ²  sins against himself. ³ 

When Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood ¹  and was putting it on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

The stew was poured out ¹  for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out, “Death is in the pot, O prophet!” They could not eat it.