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Isa 59:5 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

cockatrice		or, adder's. Isa 14:29; Pro 23:32; *marg:
crushed breaketh out into a viper		or, sprinkled is as if there brake out a viper. Mat 3:7; Mat 12:34

Correlating Passages

cockatrice

	Isa 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.
	Pro 23:32	At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

crushed breaketh out into a viper

	Mat 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?
	Mat 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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Scott, Thomas. "Isaiah 59:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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