33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Why 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.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-38)After many terrible threatenings of deserved wrath and vengeance, we have here surprising intimations of mercy, undeserved mercy, which rejoices against judgment, and by which it appears that God has no pleasure in the death of sinners , but would rather they should turn and live . I. In jealousy for his own honour, he will not make a full end of them, Deut. 32:26-28. 1. It cannot be denied but th…
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