Jeremiah 5:27
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.”
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“Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.”
King James Version · Public Domain“As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 5:27 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.
- Proverbs 1:11If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
- Isaiah 3:14The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
- Jeremiah 9:6You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
- Hosea 12:7A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
- Hosea 12:8And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
- Hosea 12:9But I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt. I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
- Micah 1:12For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
- Micah 6:10Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?
- Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
- Revelation 18:2And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.
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