Jeremiah 5:27

As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:

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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 among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them.

28and they have transgressed the rule of judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:11If they should exhort thee, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, 1 And let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth: 1

Jeremiah 9:6Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do thus because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people.

Hosea 12:8As for Canaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.

Amos 8:4Hear now this, ye that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,

Micah 6:10Is there not fire, and the house of the wicked heaping up wicked treasures, and that with the pride of unrighteousness?

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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