Jeremiah 5:27

King James Version 1611 (Original)

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:11-13 : 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
  • Jer 9:6 : 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
  • Hos 12:7-8 : 7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? 11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. 11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
  • Rev 18:2 : 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

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    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 they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

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

    18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

    19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

  • Hab 2:9
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    9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

  • Mic 6:12
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    11 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • Job 27:18
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    18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

  • Ps 10:9
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    9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

  • Prov 23:5
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    5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

  • Ps 73:6-7
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    6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

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  • Jer 9:5-6
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    5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

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  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

    12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • Prov 29:5-6
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    5 A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.

    6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

  • Prov 15:6
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    6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

  • Mic 2:2
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    2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

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    35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

  • Job 22:18
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    18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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    5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

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    27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

  • Prov 23:28
    70%

    28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

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    5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

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    15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

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    70%

    13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

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    8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

  • Ezek 22:27
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    27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

  • Mic 6:10
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    10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

  • Jer 18:22
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    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Jer 22:14
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    14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • Ps 17:10
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    10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

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    16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

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    6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Job 5:5
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    5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

  • Job 15:28
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    28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

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    10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.