Jeremiah 5:27
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| Overview - Jeremiah 5 | |
| 1 | The judgments of God upon the Jews, for their perverseness; |
| 7 | 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 5:27 (King James Version)
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
- cage
- or, coop.
- This is, without doubt, a reference to a decoy or trap-cage, as Dr. Blayney renders; in which fowlers place several tame birds, to decoy the others into the snare prepared for them.
- Revelation 18:2
- so are
- Proverbs 1:11-13 ; Hosea 12:7 Hosea 12:8 ; Amos 8:4-6 ; Micah 1:12 ; Micah 6:10 Micah 6:11 Habakkuk 2:9-11