Jeremiah 5:27

Just as a snare is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. As a result, they have become exalted and enriched.

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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 the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.

28They have grown stout and fat. And they have transgressed my words most wickedly. They have not judged the case of the widow; they have not given guidance to the case of the orphan; and they have not judged a judgment for the poor.

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:11If they should say: “Come with us. We will lie in wait for blood. We will lay traps against the innocent, without cause.

Jeremiah 9:6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit. In their deceitfulness, they have refused to know me, says the Lord.”

Hosea 12:8And Ephraim has said, “Nevertheless, I have become rich; I have found an idol for myself. All of my labors will not reveal to me the iniquity that I have committed.”

Amos 8:4Hear this, you who crush the poor and who make those in need of land to do without.

Micah 6:10Nevertheless, there is a fire in the house of the impious, the treasury of iniquity, and a small measure, filled with wrath.

Revelation 18:2And he cried out with strength, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. And she has become the habitation of demons, and the keepsake of every unclean spirit, and the possession of every unclean and hateful flying thing.

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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