Jeremiah 5:27

As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.

Young's Literal Translation

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 wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap — men they capture.

28They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless — and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:11If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

Jeremiah 9:6thy dwelling [is] in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Hosea 12:8And Ephraim saith: 'Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours — they find not against me iniquity that [is] sin.'

Amos 8:4Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

Micah 6:10Are there yet [in] the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

Revelation 18:2and he did cry in might — a great voice, saying, 'Fall, fall did Babylon the great, and she became a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold 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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