Jeremiah 5:26 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁶ For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ For among My people are found wicked men; they watch like fowlers who lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

Common English Bible

²⁶ Criminals are found among my people; they set traps to catch people, like hunters lying in wait.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ For the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ For among my people are found wicked men that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.

Jeremiah 5:26 Cross References

Psalm 64:5

They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who shall see them?

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood, Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

Isaiah 32:7

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Isaiah 58:1

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Jeremiah 18:20

Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy fury from them.

Jeremiah 18:22

Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people is foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.

Micah 6:10

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

Micah 7:2

The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Luke 5:10

and so were also James and John, sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.