Jeremiah 5:27

As a cage is full of birdes, so are their houses full of deceite: thereby they are become great and waxen riche.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 founde wicked persons, that lay waite as hee that setteth snares: they haue made a pit, to catch men.

28They are waxen fat and shining: they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked: they execute no iudgement, no not the iudgement of the fatherlesse: yet they prosper, though they execute no iudgement for the poore.

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:11If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:

Jeremiah 9:6Thine habitation is in the middes of deceiuers: because of their deceit they refuse to know me, sayth the Lord.

Hosea 12:8And Ephraim saide, Notwithstanding I am rich, I haue found me out riches in all my labours: they shall finde none iniquitie in me, that were wickednesse.

Amos 8:4Heare this, O yee that swallowe vp the poore, that ye may make the needie of the lande to fayle,

Micah 6:10Are yet the treasures of wickednes in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure, that is abominable?

Revelation 18:2And he cryed out mightily with a loud voyce, saying, It is fallen, it is fallen, Babylon that great citie, and is become the habitation of deuils, and the holde of all foule spirits, and a cage of euery vncleane and hatefull birde.

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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