Jeremiah 5:27

As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

In Context

26For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

28They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:11If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

Jeremiah 9:6There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

Hosea 12:8\12:7\As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

Amos 8:4Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

Micah 6:10Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

Revelation 18:2And he gave a loud cry, saying, Babylon the great has come down from her high place, she has come to destruction and has become a place of evil spirits, and of every unclean spirit, and a hole for 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 →

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