Jeremiah 5:27 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁷ Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ 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

²⁷ 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)

²⁷ 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

²⁷ Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of loot. No wonder they are rich and powerful

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Just as a snare is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. As a result, they have become exalted and enriched.

Jeremiah 5:27 Cross References

Job 12:6

1 Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eateth, the taste?

Isaiah 3:14

2 And changes of apparel, and short cloaks, and fine linen, and crisping pins,

Jeremiah 12:1

Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird? Is it as a bird died throughout? come ye, assemble yourselves, all the beasts of the earth, make haste to devour.

Jeremiah 8:5

3 Gathering I will gather them together, saith the Lord, there is no grape on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig tree, the leaf is fallen: and I have given them the things that are passed away.

Jeremiah 9:6

4 But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them.

Hosea 12:9

Therefore they shall be as a morning aloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

Micah 1:12

In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

Zephaniah 1:9

7 And I will distress men, and they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as earth, and their bodies as dung.

Revelation 18:2

1 And the merchants of the earth shall weep, and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more.