Jeremiah 5:27

The Scriptures 1998

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

Cross References

Revelation 18:2

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

Micah 1:12

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

Jeremiah 9:6

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

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 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?

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.

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.

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.