Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
I will send - Or, am sending. No prophet changes his metaphors so suddenly as Jeremiah. The invading army is now compared to snakes, whom no charming can soothe, and whose bite is fatal. Compare Numbers 21:5-6.
Cockatrices - " Vipers." See Isaiah 11:8 note.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 8:17:
Isaiah 3:3
Isaiah 11:8
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