Their wine is snakes’ poison, the deadly venom of cobras.

You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? ¹ 

And let us not put Christ ¹  to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes. ² 

“I ¹  am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, ²  so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

So the Lord sent poisonous ¹  snakes ²  among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.

Each man ¹  threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

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 

Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord that he would take away ¹  the snakes from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents ¹  and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow ²  from a flint rock and

For the power ¹  of the horses resides ²  in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails are like snakes, having heads that inflict injuries.

his food is turned sour ¹  in his stomach; ²  it becomes the venom of serpents ³  within him.

He sucks the poison ¹  of serpents; ²  the fangs ³  of a viper ⁴  kill him.

they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them; ¹  they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well.”

Look, I have given you authority to tread ¹  on snakes and scorpions ²  and on the full force of the enemy, ³  and nothing will ⁴  hurt you.

You will subdue ¹  a lion and a snake; ²  you will trample underfoot a young lion and a serpent.

Don’t be so happy, all you Philistines, just because the club that beat you has been broken! ¹  For a viper will grow out of the serpent’s root, and its fruit will be a darting adder. ² 

A wolf and a lamb will graze together; ¹  a lion, like an ox, will eat straw, ²  and a snake’s food will be dirt. ³  They will no longer injure or destroy on my entire royal mountain,” ⁴  says the Lord.

They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; ¹  I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.

You destroyed ¹  the sea by your strength; you shattered the heads of the sea monster ²  in the water.

Their tongues wound like a serpent; ¹  a viper’s ²  venom is behind ³  their lips. (Selah)