Jeremiah 5:27

As a cage is full of birds, So are their houses full of fraud. Therefore are they grown great and 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 are found wicked men, Who lie on the watch like fowlers; They set a trap that they may catch men.

28They have become fat and shine; Yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked; They maintain no cause, No cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; And the right of the needy do they not defend.

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:11If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us lurk secretly for him who is innocent in vain;

Jeremiah 9:6Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit, [[O prophet!]] Through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.

Hosea 12:8Yet Ephraim saith, Lo, I have become rich; I have found myself substance; In all my earnings can be found no transgression in which there is guilt.

Amos 8:4Hear this, ye that pant to oppress the needy, And to destroy the poor of the land.

Micah 6:10Are there not yet in the houses of the unrighteous the treasures of iniquity, And the scanty measure, which is abominable?

Revelation 18:2And he cried with a strong voice, saying: Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful 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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