Jeremiah 5:27

The Scriptures 2009

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

Cross References

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke Ěl are complacent, to him who brings Eloah into his hand!

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 are strengthened in 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, “Baḇel the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, and a haunt for every unclean and hated bird,