They will die from hunger and fever; they will die from terrible diseases. I will send wild animals to attack them, and poisonous snakes to bite them.

People of Philistia, the rod that beat you is broken, but you have no reason to be glad. When one snake dies, a worse one comes in its place. A snake's egg hatches a flying dragon.

It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear! Or like someone who comes home and puts his hand on the wall---only to be bitten by a snake!

If they hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I will search for them and catch them. If they hide from me at the bottom of the sea, I will command the sea monster to bite them.

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and also in their tails. Their tails are like snakes with heads, and they use them to hurt people.

They are full of poison like snakes; they stop up their ears like a deaf cobra,

which does not hear the voice of the snake charmer, or the chant of the clever magician.

Knowing how to charm a snake is of no use if you let the snake bite first.