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Isaiah 59:5

Sin

3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

4 No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

6 Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.

7 Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
KJV
They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
WEB
They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
ASV
They hatch adders` eggs, and weave the spider`s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
DARBY
They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
BLB
They have hatched eggs of a viper, and they weave the web of a spider; the one eating of their eggs dies, and [from] the crushed one breaks out a viper!
ÅB
Basilisk-egg klekker de ut, og spindelvev vever de; den som spiser av deres egg, må dø, og trykkes et i stykker, bryter det fram en huggorm.
OTB
De klekker ut giftslangeegg og vever edderkoppnett. Den som spiser av deres egg, dør, og fra et som knuses, bryter en slange ut.
B1930
Basilisk-egg klekker de ut, og spindelvev vever de; den som eter av deres egg, må dø, og trykkes et i stykker, bryter det frem en huggorm.

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Cross references

  • Matthew 3:7

    But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

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  • Isaiah 14:29

    Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

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  • Proverbs 23:32

    In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

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  • Matthew 12:34

    You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.

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  • Job 8:14

    His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.

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