Jeremiah 8:17
King James Version
“For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which not charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.”
Context
14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15We looked for peace, but no good for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which not charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
18I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart faint in me.
19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: not the LORD in Zion? not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with strange vanities?
20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.