Jeremiah 5:26

Overview - Jeremiah 5
The judgments of God upon the Jews, for their perverseness;
for their adultery;
10 for their impiety;
15 for their worship of idols;
19 for their contempt of God;
25 and for their great corruption in the civil state;
30 and ecclesiastical.
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Jeremiah 5:26  (King James Version)
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
 


For
4:22 Isaiah 58:1 ; Ezekiel 22:2-12

lay wait
or, pry as fowlers lie in wait.
18:22 1 Samuel 19:10 1 Samuel 19:11 ; Psalms 10:9 Psalms 10:10 ; 64:5 Proverbs 1:11 Proverbs 1:17 Proverbs 1:18 ; Habakkuk 1:14 Habakkuk 1:15

catch
Luke 5:10