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Jeremiah 5:27
Jeremiah 5:27 is verse 27 of Jeremiah chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
King James Version
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
World English Bible
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
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Jeremiah 5:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty.
26 For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
27 Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
28 They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.
29 Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
Proverbs 1:11If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
Proverbs 1:12let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
Proverbs 1:13We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.
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.”
Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
Amos 8:5asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
Amos 8:6Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
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?
Micah 6:11Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?
Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
Habakkuk 2:10You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.
Habakkuk 2:11For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.