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Isaiah 59:5

Sin

3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

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.

6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

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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 he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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  • Isaiah 14:29

    Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

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  • Proverbs 23:32

    At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

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  • Matthew 12:34

    O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

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  • Job 8:14

    Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.

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