Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grown rich.
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Proverbs 1:11If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
Jeremiah 9:6Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says LORD.
Hosea 12:8And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich. I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin.
Amos 8:4Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Micah 6:10Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?
Revelation 18:2And he cried out in a mighty voice, saying, Babylon the great has fallen, has fallen, and became a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hated bird.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:26-31
Expostulation with Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet… Read the whole commentary →