Jeremiah 5:26

Coverdale Bible (1535)

For amonge my people are founde wicked personnes, that priuely laye snares and waite for men, to take them, and destroye them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:11 : 11 yf they entyse the, and saye: come wyth us, let us laye wayte for bloude, & lurke preuely for the innocet wythout a cause:
  • Jer 18:22 : 22 Let the noyse be herde out of their houses, when the murtherer cometh sodenly vpon them: For they haue digged a pit to take me, and layed snares for my fete.
  • Ezek 22:2-9 : 2 Thou sonne of man, wilt thou not reproue this bloudthurstie cite? Shewe the their abhominacios, 3 & tell them: Thus saieth the LORDE God: O thou cite, yt sheddest bloude in ye myddest of the, yt thy tyme maye come also: and makest the Idols to defyle the withall. 4 Thou hast made thy self gilty, in ye bloude yt thou hast shed: & defyled ye i ye ydols, which thou hast made. Thou hast caused thy daies to drawe nye, & made the tyme of thy yeares to come. Therfore will I make ye to be confounded amoge the Heithe, & to be despised in all the lodes, 5 whether they be nye or farre fro the: they shal laugh ye to scorne, thou yt hast gotte the so foule a name, & art full off myschefe. 6 Beholde, the rulers of Israel haue brought euery man his power, to shed bloude in the. 7 In the haue they despised father & mother, in the haue they oppressed the strauger, in the haue they vexed the wyddowe & the fatherlesse. 8 Thou hast despysed my Sactuary, and vnhalowed my Sabbath. 9 Murtherers are there in the, that shed bloude, & eate vpon the hilles, and in the they vse vnhappynesse. 10 In ye haue they discouered their fathers shame, in the haue they vexed women in their sicknesse. 11 Euery ma hath dealte shamefully with his neghbours wife, & abhominably defyled his doughter in lawe. In the hath euery man forced his owne sister, euen his fathers doughter: 12 Yee giftes haue bene receaued in the, to shed bloude. Thou hast taken vsury & encreace, thou hast oppressed thy neghbours by extorcion, and forgotten me, saieth the LORDE God.
  • Hab 1:14-15 : 14 Thou makest men as the fish in the see, and like as the crepinge beestes, that haue no gyde. 15 They take vp all with their angle, they catch it in their net, & gather it in their yarne: wherof they reioyce and are glad.
  • Luke 5:10 : 10 and so were Iames and Ihon also the sonnes of Zebede, which were Symons companyons. And Iesus sayde vnto Symo: Feare not, for fro hence forth thou shalt take men.
  • Prov 1:17-18 : 17 But in vayne is ye net layed forth before the byrdes eyes. 18 Yee they the selues laye wayte one for anothers bloude, and one of the wolde slaye another.
  • Isa 58:1 : 1 And therfore crie now, as loude as thou canst. Leaue not of, lift vp thy voyce like a tropet, and shewe my people their offences, and ye house of Iacob their synnes.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 Neuertheles this shall come vpon them, because my people is become foolish, and hath vterly no vnderstondinge. They are the children of foolishnes, and without eny discrecio. To do euell, they haue witt ynough: but to do well, they haue no wi?dome.
  • 1 Sam 19:10-11 : 10 And Saul thought with the iauelinge to sticke Dauid fast to the wall. Howbeit, he wente asyde fro Saul and the iauelynge smote in the wall. And Dauid fled, and escaped that night. 11 Notwithstondinge Saul sent his messaungers to Dauids house, that they shulde laye wayte for him, and kyll him in the mornynge. Michol Dauids wyfe tolde him this, and sayde: Yf thou saue not thy soule this night, thou shalt dye tomorow.
  • Ps 10:9-9 : 9 yee to rauish the poore, when he hath gotten him in to his nett. 10 Then smyteth he, then oppresseth he & casteth downe the poore with his auctorite.
  • Ps 64:5 : 5 They haue deuysed myschefe, and commoned amonge them selues, how they maye laye snares: tush (saye they) who shall se them?

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    16 For their fete rune to euell, & are haistie to shed bloude.

    17 But in vayne is ye net layed forth before the byrdes eyes.

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  • Ps 10:8-9
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  • Ps 140:5
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  • Ps 64:5
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    5 They haue deuysed myschefe, and commoned amonge them selues, how they maye laye snares: tush (saye they) who shall se them?

  • Ps 141:9
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    12 They that sought after my life, and to do me euell, spake of lyes and ymagined disceate all the daye longe.

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    3 For lo, they lye waytinge for my soule: ye mightie me are gathered together against me, wt out eny offence or faute of me, o LORDE.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11 Yf it were myne enemie that reuyled me, I coude beare it: or yf one that ought me euell will dyd threaten me, I wolde hyde myself from him.

  • Prov 1:11
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    11 yf they entyse the, and saye: come wyth us, let us laye wayte for bloude, & lurke preuely for the innocet wythout a cause:

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    28 She lurketh like a thefe, and those that be not awarre she brigeth vnto her.

  • Jer 18:22
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    22 Let the noyse be herde out of their houses, when the murtherer cometh sodenly vpon them: For they haue digged a pit to take me, and layed snares for my fete.

  • Prov 29:5-6
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    5 Who so flatreth his neghbor, layeth a nette for his fete.

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    6 Set vp thy self (o God) aboue the heaues, and thy glory aboue all the earth.

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    7 For they haue pryuely laied their nett to destroye me without a cause, yee and made a pitte for my soule, which I neuer deserued.

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    15 Laye no preuy waite wickedly vpon ye house of ye rightuous, & disquiete not his restinge place.

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    8 For his fete shalbe taken in the nett, and he shal walke in the snare.

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    14 The vngodly drawe out the swerde & bende their bowe, to cast downe ye symple & poore, and to slaye soch as go ye right waye.

  • Isa 29:21
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    21 soch as laboure to drawe me vnto synne: and yt disceaue him, which reproueth them in the gate, & soch as turne good personnes to vanite.

  • Hos 4:8
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    8 They eate vp the synnes of my people, & corage them in their wickednesse.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8 Their tunges are like sharpe arowes, to speake disceate. With their mouth they speake peaceably to their neghboure, but preuely they laye waite for him.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32 The lawe of his God is in his hert, therfore shal not his fotesteppes slyde.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12 amonge those that be full off riches vnrightuously gotten: where the citesyns deale with falsede, speake lyes, and haue disceatfull tunges in their mouthes?

  • Hab 2:9
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    9 Wo vnto him, that couetously gathereth euell gotten goodes in to his house: that he maye set his nest an hye, to escape from the power of mysfortune.

  • Jer 9:5-6
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    5 Yee one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no treuth. They haue practised their tunges to lye, and taken greate paynes to do myschefe.

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  • Job 22:10
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    10 Therfore art thou compased aboute with snares on euery syde, & sodely vexed wt feare.

  • Jer 5:25
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    25 Neuertheles youre mi?dedes haue turned these from you, & youre synnes haue robbed you herof.

  • Prov 11:6
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    6 The rightuousnesse of the iust shal delyuer them, but the despysers shalbe taken in their owne vngodlynesse.

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    9 their throte is an open sepulchre: with their tonges they disceaue.

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    1 Wo vnto them, that ymagyn to do harme, and deuyse vngraciousnesse vpon their beddes, to perfourme it in ye cleare daye: for their power is agaynst God.

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    6 The talkynge of the vngodly is, how they maye laye wayte for bloude, but the mouth of ye righteous wil delyuer them.

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    10 In whose hondes is wickednesse, and their right honde is full of giftes.

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    16 For they can not slepe, excepte they haue first done some myschefe: nether take they eny rest, excepte they haue first done some harme.

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    9 The multitude of the prestes is like an heape of theues, murtherers & bloudthurstie: for they haue wrought abhominacion.

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    20 And why? their comonynge is not for peace, but they ymagin false wordes agaynst ye outcastes of the londe.

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    12 as for the multitude of youre wickednesses and youre stoute synnes, I knowe them right well. Enemies are ye off the rightuous, ye take rewardes, ye oppresse the poore in iudgment.

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    6 Wherfore a lyon out of the wod shal hurte them, and a wolfe in the euenynge shal destroye them. The cat of the mountayne shal lie lurkinge by their cities, to teare in peces all them, that come therout. For their offences are many, and their departinge awaye is greate.