They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?
Jeremiah 5:26 - American Standard Version (1901) For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 For among My people are found wicked men; they watch like fowlers who lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men. Common English Bible Criminals are found among my people; they set traps to catch people, like hunters lying in wait. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 For among my people are found wicked men that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men. English Standard Version 2016 For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. |
They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?
If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
And the instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
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.
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 wrath from them.
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.
For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable?
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.
and so were also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.