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And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

And though they hide {H2244} themselves in the top {H7218} of Carmel {H3760}, I will search {H2664} and take them out {H3947} thence; and though they be hid {H5641} from my sight {H5869} in the bottom {H7172} of the sea {H3220}, thence will I command {H6680} the serpent {H5175}, and he shall bite {H5391} them:

If they hide themselves on the top of the Karmel, I will search them out and capture them there; If they hide from me at the bottom of the sea, I will order the serpent to bite them there.

Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

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Cross-References

  • Jeremiah 16:16 (4 votes)

    Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

  • Jeremiah 23:23 (3 votes)

    [Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?

  • Jeremiah 23:24 (3 votes)

    Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

  • Job 34:22 (3 votes)

    [There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Isaiah 27:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.

  • Amos 1:2 (2 votes)

    And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

  • Psalms 139:9 (2 votes)

    [If] I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;