Jeremiah 5:26

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:
  • Jer 18:22 : 22 Let the crye bee heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring an hoste suddenly vpon them: for they haue digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feete.
  • Ezek 22:2-9 : 2 Now thou sonne of man, wilt thou iudge, wilt thou iudge this bloody citie? wilt thou shew her all her abominations? 3 Then say, Thus sayth the Lorde God, The citie sheddeth blood in the middes of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against her selfe to pollute her selfe. 4 Thou hast offended in thy blood, that thou hast shed, & hast polluted thy selfe in thine idols, which thou hast made, and thou hast caused thy dayes to draw neere, & art come vnto thy terme: therefore haue I made thee a reproch to the heathen, and a mocking to all countreys. 5 Those that be neere, & those that be farre from thee, shall mocke thee, which art vile in name and sore in affliction. 6 Beholde, the princes of Israel euery one in thee was ready to his power, to shed blood. 7 In thee haue they despised father and mother: in the middes of thee haue they oppressed the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widowe. 8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast polluted my Sabbaths. 9 In thee are men that cary tales to shed blood: in thee are they that eate vpon the mountaines: in ye mids of thee they comit abomination. 10 In thee haue they discouered their fathers shame: in thee haue they vexed her that was polluted in her floures. 11 And euery one hath committed abomination with his neighbours wife, and euery one hath wickedly defiled his daughter in lawe, and in thee hath euery man forced his owne sister, euen his fathers daughter. 12 In thee haue they taken giftes to shed blood: thou hast taken vsurie and the encrease, and thou hast defrauded thy neighbours by extortion, & hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
  • Hab 1:14-15 : 14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things, that haue no ruler ouer them. 15 They take vp all with the angle: they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarne, whereof they reioyce and are glad.
  • Luke 5:10 : 10 And so was also Iames & Iohn the sonnes of Zebedeus, which were companions with Simon. Then Iesus sayde vnto Simon, Feare not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men.
  • Prov 1:17-18 : 17 Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing: 18 So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.
  • Isa 58:1 : 1 Crye aloude, spare not: lift vp thy voyce like a trumpet, and shewe my people their transgression, and to the house of Iaakob, their sinnes.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me: they are foolish children, and haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe well they haue no knowledge.
  • 1 Sam 19:10-11 : 10 And Saul intended to smite Dauid to the wall with the speare: but hee turned aside out of Sauls presence, & he smote the speare against the wall: but Dauid fled, & escaped the same night. 11 Saul also sent messengers vnto Dauids house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal Dauids wife told it him, saying, If thou saue not thy selfe this night, to morowe thou shalt be slayne.
  • Ps 10:9-9 : 9 He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net. 10 He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poore doe fall by his might.
  • Ps 64:5 : 5 They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them?

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    27As a cage is full of birdes, so are their houses full of deceite: thereby they are become great and waxen riche.

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    16For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.

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  • Job 18:10
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    10A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way.

  • Mic 7:2-3
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    5They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them?

  • Ps 141:9
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  • Ps 55:11
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    11Wickednes is in the middes thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streetes.

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

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    22Let the crye bee heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring an hoste suddenly vpon them: for they haue digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feete.

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    5A man that flattereth his neighbour, spreadeth a net for his steps.

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    15Laye no waite, O wicked man, against the house of the righteous, and spoyle not his resting place.

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    14The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.

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  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.

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  • Hab 2:9
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  • Jer 9:5-6
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    10In whose handes is wickednes, and their right hand is full of bribes.

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