KJV 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.
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Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
WEB World English Bible
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
ASV American Standard Version
For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap—men they capture.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 5
23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have withholden good [things] from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
29 Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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כִּי־H3588 · kiforנִמְצְא֥וּH4672 · ma.tsato findבְעַמִּ֖יH5971 · ampeopleרְשָׁעִ֑יםH7563 · ra.sahwickedיָשׁוּר֙H7789 · shurto seeכְּשַׁ֣ךְH7918 · sha.khakhto subsideיְקוּשִׁ֔יםH3353 · ya.qushfowlerהִצִּ֥יבוּH5324 · na.tsavto standמַשְׁחִ֖יתH4889 · mash.chitdestructionאֲנָשִׁ֥יםH582 · e.noshhumanיִלְכֹּֽדוּ׃H3920 · la.khadto capture
Cross-references
Proverbs 1:11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:Psalm 64:5They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?Ezekiel 22:2-12Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.Jeremiah 18:22Let 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.Psalm 10:9-10He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.Habakkuk 1:14-15And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them?1 Samuel 19:10-11And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.Jeremiah 4:22For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.Luke 5:10And so [was] also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.Isaiah 58:1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.Proverbs 1:17-18Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
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