21 verses contain “poison” (in the KJV: 10, in the BSB: 15) — showing 1–21
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Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and
wormwood;
Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you
today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such
poisonous and bitter fruit,
They shall be burnt with hunger, and
devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the
poison of serpents of the dust.
They will be wasted from hunger and
ravaged by
pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the
venom of vipers that
slither in the dust.
For their vine is of the vine of
Sodom, and of the fields of
Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
But their vine is from the vine of
Sodom and from the fields of
Gomorrah. Their grapes are
poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
Their wine is the
poison of
dragons, and the cruel
venom of asps.
Their wine is the
venom of serpents, the deadly
poison of cobras.
For the arrows of the
Almighty are within me, the
poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in
array against me.
For the arrows of the
Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their
poison; the terrors of God are
arrayed against me.
He shall
suck the
poison of asps: the
viper’s tongue shall
slay him.
He will
suck the
poison of cobras; the fangs of a
viper will kill him.
Their
poison is like the
poison of a serpent: they are like the
deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my
thirst they gave me
vinegar to drink.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’
poison is under their lips.
Selah.
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.
Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us
flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has
doomed us. He has given us
poisoned water to drink, because we have
sinned against the LORD.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with
wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people
wormwood and give them
poisoned water to drink.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with
wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is
profaneness gone forth into all the land.
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them
wormwood and give them
poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
They have spoken words,
swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as
hemlock in the furrows of the field.
They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one
plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into
hemlock:
“Do horses
gallop on the cliffs? Does one
plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into
poison and the fruit of righteousness into
wormwood—
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not
hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
they will
pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly
poison, it will not
harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
For I see that you are
poisoned by bitterness and
captive to iniquity.”
But the unbelieving Jews
stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
But the unbelieving Jews
stirred up the Gentiles and
poisoned their minds against the brothers.
Their throat is an open
sepulchre; with their tongues they have used
deceit; the
poison of asps is under their lips:
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice
deceit.” “The
venom of vipers is on their lips.”
But the tongue can no man
tame; it is an
unruly evil, full of deadly
poison.
but no man can
tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly
poison.
For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth:
Whereupon being accused of the king’s friends before Eupator, and called
traitor at every word because he had left
Cyprus, that Philometor had committed unto him, and departed to
Antiochus Epiphanes, and seeing that he was in no honourable place, he was so discouraged, that he
poisoned himself and died.