The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hands.
Jeremiah 5:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit and treachery; therefore they have become great and grown rich, American Standard Version (1901) As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich. Common English Bible Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of loot. No wonder they are rich and powerful Catholic Public Domain Version Just as a snare is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. As a result, they have become exalted and enriched. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched. |
The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hands.
The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: It is you who have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
You will be in the right, O Lord, when I lay charges against you, but let me put my case to you. Why does the way of the guilty prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
Why then has this people turned away in perpetual faithlessness? They have held fast to deceit; they have refused to return.
Oppression upon oppression, deceit upon deceit! They refuse to know me, says the Lord.
I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of the appointed festival.
For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, yet disaster has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.
On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.
He called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul bird, a haunt of every foul and hateful beast.