Jeremiah 5:26
New International Version
“Among my people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch people.

New Living Translation
“Among my people are wicked men who lie in wait for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind. They continually set traps to catch people.

English Standard Version
For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

Berean Standard Bible
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

King James Bible
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

New King James Version
‘For among My people are found wicked men; They lie in wait as one who sets snares; They set a trap; They catch men.

New American Standard Bible
‘For wicked people are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch people.

NASB 1995
‘For wicked men are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch men.

NASB 1977
‘For wicked men are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch men.

Legacy Standard Bible
For wicked men are found among My people; They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap; They catch men.

Amplified Bible
‘For wicked men are found among My people, They watch like fowlers who lie in wait; They set a trap, They catch men.

Christian Standard Bible
for wicked men live among my people. They watch like hunters lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for wicked men live among My people. They watch like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because sinners are found in my nation, and they set snares like hedges, that the children of men may be captured by them

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them.

Contemporary English Version
A hunter traps birds and puts them in a cage, but some of you trap humans and make them your slaves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.

English Revised Version
For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Wicked people are found among my people. They lie in ambush like bird catchers. They set traps and catch people.

Good News Translation
"Evildoers live among my people; they lie in wait like those who lay nets to catch birds, but they have set their traps to catch people.

International Standard Version
"Evil men are found among my people. They lie in wait like someone who traps birds. They set a trap, but they do so to catch people.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For among My people are found wicked men; They pry, as fowlers lie in wait; They set a trap, they catch men.

Literal Standard Version
For the wicked have been found among My people. He watches like one who sets snares, | They have set up a trap—they capture men.

Majority Standard Bible
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

New American Bible
For criminals lurk among my people; like fowlers they set traps, but it is human beings they catch.

NET Bible
"Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.

New Revised Standard Version
For scoundrels are found among my people; they take over the goods of others. Like fowlers they set a trap; they catch human beings.

New Heart English Bible
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

Webster's Bible Translation
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

World English Bible
For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

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.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Judgment Proclaimed
25Your iniquities have diverted these from you; your sins have deprived you of My bounty. 26For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men. 27Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.…

Cross References
Psalm 10:9
He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

Proverbs 1:11
If they say, "Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

Isaiah 32:7
The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.

Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.

Jeremiah 18:20
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.

Micah 6:10
Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?


Treasury of Scripture

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

For.

Jeremiah 4:22
For 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.

Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Ezekiel 22:2-12
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations…

lay wait.

Jeremiah 18:22
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.

1 Samuel 19:10,11
And 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…

Psalm 10:9,10
He 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…

catch.

Luke 5:10
And 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.

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Jeremiah 5
1. The judgments of God upon the people, 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.














(26) They lay wait.--Literally, he lieth in wait (used of the leopard in Hosea 13:7), as in the crouching down of fowlers: they have set the snare. The indefinite singular in the first clause brings before us the picture of isolated guilt, the plural that of confederate evil.

Verse 26. - They lay wait, etc.; rather, they spy (literally, one spieth), as fowlers lie in wait. A trap; literally, a destroyer; i.e. an instrument of destruction (comp. Isaiah 54:16, where" the waster" (or destroyer) probably means the weapon referred to previously).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

My people
בְעַמִּ֖י (ḇə·‘am·mî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

are among
נִמְצְא֥וּ (nim·ṣə·’ū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

wicked men.
רְשָׁעִ֑ים (rə·šā·‘îm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

They watch
יָשׁוּר֙ (yā·šūr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7789: To spy out, survey, lurk for, care for

like fowlers
יְקוּשִׁ֔ים (yə·qū·šîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3353: Entangled, a snare, a snarer

lying in wait;
כְּשַׁ֣ךְ (kə·šaḵ)
Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7918: To weave, a trap, to allay

they set
הִצִּ֥יבוּ (hiṣ·ṣî·ḇū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5324: To take one's stand, stand

a trap;
מַשְׁחִ֖ית (maš·ḥîṯ)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 4889: Destructive, destruction

they catch
יִלְכֹּֽדוּ׃ (yil·kō·ḏū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3920: To catch, to capture, occupy, to choose, to cohere

men.
אֲנָשִׁ֥ים (’ă·nā·šîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 582: Man, mankind


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