Jeremiah 5:27 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁷ ‘As a cage is filled with birds, so their houses are filled with deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown 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.

Jeremiah 5:27 Cross References

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke Ě

Isaiah 3:14

יהוה  enters into judgment with the elders of His people and its heads, “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard, the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O יהוה, when I plead with You. Indeed, let me speak with You about right-rulings. Why has the way of the wrong prospered? All the workers of treachery are at ease?

Jeremiah 8:5

“Why then has this people, Yerushalayim, turned away in a continual backsliding? They cling to deceit, they refuse to turn back.

Jeremiah 9:6

“You live in the midst of deceit; through deceit they have refused to know Me,” declares יהוה.

Hosea 12:9

“But I am יהוה  your Elohim since the land of Mitsrayim, again I shall make you dwell in tents as in the days of the appointed time.

Micah 1:12

Though the inhabitants of Maroth waited for good, yet evil came down from יהוה  to the gate of Yerushalayim.

Zephaniah 1:9

“And I shall punish on that day all who leap over the threshold, who fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

Revelation 18:2

And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Baḇ