The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
Jeremiah 5:27 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of loot. No wonder they are rich and powerful Catholic Public Domain Version 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 As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched. |
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and their leaders: *It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Righteous are you, LORD, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?
Why then is this people of Yerushalayim slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
*But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.
For the inhabitant of Marot waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the LORD to the gate of Yerushalayim.
In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.
He cried with a mighty voice, saying, *Fallen, fallen is Bavel the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!