Jeremiah 5:27

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Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Because of this, they have become great and rich.

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  • Prov 1:11-13 : 11 If they say, 'Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause;' 12 Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive, whole, like those who go down to the pit; 13 We will find all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.
  • Jer 9:6 : 6 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?
  • Hos 12:7-8 : 7 But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice and wait for your God continually. 8 Canaan, in whose hands are deceitful scales, loves to defraud.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land, 5 saying, 'When will the new moon be over, so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath end, so we may market wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel large, and falsifying the scales with deceit? 6 Buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, even selling the sweepings of the wheat.'
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 The inhabitants of Maroth writhe in pain, waiting for relief, because disaster has come from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 10 Are there still treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and dishonest measures that are detestable? 11 Shall I acquit a person with crooked scales and a bag of deceptive weights?
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity! 10 You have planned disgrace for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your own life. 11 For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the wooden beam will answer it.
  • Rev 18:2 : 2 He cried out with a mighty voice, saying, 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a prison for every unclean spirit, and a cage for every unclean and detested bird.'

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    26Among My people are wicked men. They lie in wait like those who set traps; they set deadly snares to catch people.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.

  • Prov 1:17-19
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    17Surely in vain is the net spread in sight of any bird,

    18But these men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

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    9Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity!

  • Mic 6:12
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    12Her rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

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    11Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay, so is one who gains wealth by unjust means. In the middle of his life, it will desert him, and in the end, he will prove to be a fool.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.

  • Job 27:18
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    18He builds his house like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.

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    9He lies in wait secretly, like a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the afflicted; he catches the afflicted by drawing them into his net.

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    5Will you fix your eyes on wealth only for it to vanish? For it makes itself wings and flies away like an eagle toward the heavens.

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    6Therefore, pride is their necklace; violence clothes them like a garment.

    7Their eyes bulge from fatness; their imaginations overflow with malice.

  • Jer 9:5-6
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    5You live in the midst of deceit, and because of deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

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    11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

    12For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: oppressing the righteous, taking bribes, and turning aside the needy at the gate.

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    3They please the king with their evil and the princes with their lies.

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    5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

    6An evil man is ensnared by his transgression, but the righteous rejoice and are glad.

  • Prov 15:6
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    6The house of the righteous contains great treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

  • Mic 2:2
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    2They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13For from the least to the greatest, all are greedy for unjust gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Day and night they surround it on its walls, and trouble and wickedness are within it.

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    7His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and iniquity.

  • Job 15:35
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    35They conceive trouble and give birth to wickedness; their womb prepares deceit.

  • Job 22:18
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    18Yet it was He who filled their houses with good things, though the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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    15Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

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    13Or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children, there is nothing left for them to inherit.

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    8Like a bird that wanders from its nest is a man who wanders from his place.

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    27Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and destroy lives to make unjust gain.

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    10Are there still treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and dishonest measures that are detestable?

  • Jer 18:22
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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring a raiding party upon them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and hidden snares for my feet.

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    14He says, 'I will build for myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' cutting out large windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion.

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    10They close up their hearts to compassion; they speak with arrogance.

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    16Their quiver is like an open grave; all of them are mighty warriors.

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    6"The tents of robbers are at ease, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their own hand."

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    5The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.

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    9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

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    7The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to act justly.

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    10whose hands are full of wicked schemes, and whose right hand is filled with bribes.