Jeremiah 5:27

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:11-13 : 11 If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, 12 We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit, 13 Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses `with' spoil,
  • Jer 9:6 : 6 thy dwelling `is' in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Hos 12:7-8 : 7 Canaan! in his hand `are' balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved. 8 And Ephraim saith: `Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours -- they find not against me iniquity that `is' sin.'
  • Amos 8:4-6 : 4 Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land, 5 Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit. 6 To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
  • Mic 1:12 : 12 For stayed for good hath the inhabitant of Maroth, For evil hath come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.
  • Mic 6:10-11 : 10 Are there yet `in' the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah? 11 Do I reckon `it' pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?
  • Hab 2:9-9 : 9 Wo `to' him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil, 10 Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful `is' thy soul. 11 For a stone from the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it.
  • Rev 18:2 : 2 and he did cry in might -- a great voice, saying, `Fall, fall did Babylon the great, and she became a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird,

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    26For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

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

    18And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

    19So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

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    9Wo `to' him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,

  • Mic 6:12
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    12Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue `is' deceitful in their mouth.

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    11A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, `Is' one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.

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    3On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

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    18He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.

  • Ps 10:9
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    9He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

  • Prov 23:5
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    5For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

  • Ps 73:6-7
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    6Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.

    7Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;

  • Jer 9:5-6
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    5And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

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  • Amos 5:11-12
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    71%

    11Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.

    12For I have known -- many `are' your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.

  • Prov 29:5-6
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    5A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

    6In the transgression of the evil `is' a snare, And the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

  • Prov 15:6
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    6`In' the house of the righteous `is' abundant strength, And in the increase of the wicked -- trouble.

  • Mic 2:2
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    2And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13For from their least unto their greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, And from prophet even unto priest, Every one is dealing falsely,

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Mischiefs `are' in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,

  • Job 15:35
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    35To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.

  • Job 22:18
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    18And he hath filled their houses `with' good: (And the counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

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    5Doth a bird fall into a snare of the earth, And there is no gin for it? Doth a snare go up from the ground, And prey it captureth not?

  • Prov 15:27
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    27A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.

  • Prov 23:28
    70%

    28She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.

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    5They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'

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    15A growling lion, and a ranging bear, `Is' the wicked ruler over a poor people.

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    70%

    13There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

  • Prov 27:8
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    8As a bird wandering from her nest, So `is' a man wandering from his place.

  • Ezek 22:27
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    27Its princes in its midst `are' as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.

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    69%

    10Are there yet `in' the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

  • Jer 18:22
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    22A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

  • Jer 22:14
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    14Who is saying, `I build for myself a large house, And airy upper chambers,' And he hath cut out for himself its windows, Ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermillion.

  • Ps 17:10
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    10Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:

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    16Its quiver `is' as an open sepulchre, All of them -- mighty ones.

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    6At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.

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    9For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart `is' mischiefs, An open grave `is' their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

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    5Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

  • Job 15:28
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    28And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.

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    8A slaughtering arrow `is' their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.

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    10In whose hand `is' a wicked device, And their right hand `is' full of bribes.