TSK
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge references in NET.
This is an oracle about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.
They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, a poisonous snake is hatched.
But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
as unknown, and yet well-known; as dying and yet– see!– we continue to live; as those who are scourged and yet not executed;