Jeremiah 5:27 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²⁷ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.

Jeremiah 5:27 Cross References

Job 12:6

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

Isaiah 3:14

The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Jeremiah 8:5

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Jeremiah 9:6

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.

Hosea 12:9

And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.

Micah 1:12

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.

Zephaniah 1:9

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

Revelation 18:2

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.