Jeremiah 5:27
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New International Version (©1984)
Like cages full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; they have become rich and powerful

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Like a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit; Therefore they have become great and rich.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Like cages filled with birds, their houses are filled with deceit. That is why they become powerful and rich.

King James Bible
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

American 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.

American Standard Version
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.

Bible in Basic English
As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.

Darby Bible Translation
As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.

English Revised Version
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

Webster's Bible Translation
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and have grown rich.

World English Bible
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

Young's Literal Translation
As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.

Geneva Study Bible

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

Wesley's Notes

5:27 Their houses - They fill their houses with the goods of those they deceive, and over - reach.

King James Translators' Notes

cage: or, coop

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

27. full of deceit-full of treasures got by deceit.

rich-(Ps 73:12, 18-20).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

5:19-31 Unhumbled hearts are ready to charge God with being unjust in their afflictions. But they may read their sin in their punishment. If men will inquire wherefore the Lord doeth hard things unto them, let them think of their sins. The restless waves obeyed the Divine decree, that they should not pass the sandy shores, which were as much a restraint as lofty mountains; but they burst all restraints of God's law, and were wholly gone into wickedness. Neither did they consider their interest. While the Lord, year after year, reserves to us the appointed weeks of harvest, men live on his bounty; yet they transgress against him. Sin deprives us of God's blessings; it makes the heaven as brass, and the earth as iron. Certainly the things of this world are not the best things; and we are not to think, that, because evil men prosper, God allows their practices. Though sentence against evil works is not executed speedily, it will be executed. Shall I not visit for these things? This speaks the certainty and the necessity of God's judgments. Let those who walk in bad ways consider that an end will come, and there will be bitterness in the latter end.


Jeremiah 9:6 "Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me," declares the LORD. (NASB ©1995)

Basket Birds Cage Deceit Enriched Fowls Full Great Grew Grown Houses Powerful Reason Rich Themselves Treachery Waxed Waxen


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.

Re 18:2

so are. Pr 1:11-13 Ho 12:7,8 Am 8:4-6 Mic 1:12 6:10,11 Hab 2:9-11

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