Jeremiah 5:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁷ Like a basket full of birds, their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich,

More versions

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 tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.

Isaiah 3:14

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.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I complain to thee; yet I would plead my case before thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Jeremiah 8:5

Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.

Jeremiah 9:6

Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, says the Lord.

Hosea 12:9

I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.

Micah 1:12

For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish every one who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master's house with violence and fraud.”

Revelation 18:2

And 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 and hateful bird;