Jeremiah 5:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

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  • Prov 1:11-13 : 11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause; 12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; 13 Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;
  • Jer 9:6 : 6 There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.
  • Hos 12:7-8 : 7 So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God. 8 As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit; 6 Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed? 11 Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer! 10 You have been a cause of shame to your house by cutting off a number of peoples, and sinning against your soul. 11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.
  • Rev 18:2 : 2 And he gave a loud cry, saying, Babylon the great has come down from her high place, she has come to destruction and has become a place of evil spirits, and of every unclean spirit, and a hole for every unclean and hated bird.

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  • Prov 1:17-19
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    17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

    18 And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

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  • Hab 2:9
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    9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

  • Mic 6:12
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    12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

  • Jer 17:11
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    11 Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3 Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

  • Job 27:18
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    18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

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    9 He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

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    5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

  • Ps 73:6-7
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    6 For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

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    5 Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

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  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

    12 For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

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    3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

  • Prov 29:5-6
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    5 A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.

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  • Prov 15:6
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    6 In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.

  • Mic 2:2
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    2 They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11 Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

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    27 He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

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    28 Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

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    5 They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

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    15 Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.

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    8 Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.

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    27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.

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    10 Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

  • Jer 18:22
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    22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

  • Jer 22:14
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    14 Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.

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    10 They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.

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    16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

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    6 There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

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    9 For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

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    5 Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

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    28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

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    8 His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9 But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

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    7 By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

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    10 In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.