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Jeremiah 5:27
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Like a cage full of birds,so their houses are full of deceit.Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.
Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich;
'Like a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit; Therefore they have become great and rich.
Like cages full of birds, their houses are full of lies. They have become rich and powerful.
'As a cage is full of birds, So are their houses full of deceit and treachery; Therefore they have become influential and rich.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.
As a cage is full of birdes, so are their houses full of deceite: thereby they are become great and waxen riche.
Like a cage full of birds,So their houses are full of deceit;Therefore they have become great and rich.
Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.
You are evil, and you lie and cheat to make yourselves rich. You are powerful
Their houses are as full of fraud as a cage full of birds. They grow rich and great,
As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.
Their houses are full of lies, like a cage full of birds. Their lies made them rich and powerful.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit;
Just as a hunter fills a cage with birds, they have filled their houses with loot. That is why they are powerful and rich,
Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of fraud. Therefore they have become great, and they have become rich.
Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of treachery. On account of this they have become great and grown rich.
And like as a net is full of byrdes, so are their houses full of that, which they haue gotten with falsede and disceate. Herof cometh their greate substaunce and riches,
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.
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.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; therefore they are become great, and waxen rich;
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
And like as a nette is full of byrdes, so are their houses full of that which they haue gotten with falshood and deceipt: Hereof commeth their great substaunce and riches,
As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
As a net, ether a trap, ful of briddis, so the housis of hem ben ful of gile. Therfor thei ben magnefied,
As a cage is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and waxed rich.
As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and have grown rich.
Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.
As a cage is full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.
Like a cage filled with birds, their homes are filled with evil plots. And now they are great and rich.
Like a basket full of birds, their houses are full of lies and false ways. So they have become important and rich.
Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich,
As, a cage, is full of birds, So, are, their houses, full of unrighteous gain, - For this cause, have they become great and waxen rich:
As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.
Like a basket full of birds, their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich,
As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.
'Like a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit; Therefore they have become great and rich.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
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
Reciprocal: Nehemiah 9:25 - did eat Job 12:6 - tabernacles Psalms 55:11 - deceit Isaiah 2:7 - land Isaiah 3:14 - ye have eaten Isaiah 59:14 - General Jeremiah 17:11 - he that Ezekiel 21:24 - your transgressions Ezekiel 22:13 - thy dishonest Daniel 8:8 - waxed Hosea 4:2 - swearing Habakkuk 1:4 - for 1 Timothy 6:10 - the love
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As a cage is full of birds,.... Jarchi and Kimchi understand it of a place in which fowls, are brought up and fattened, what we call a "pen"; and, so the Targum renders it, a house or place of fattening. The word is rendered a "basket" in Amos 8:1 and may here design one in which birds taken in snares, or by hawking, were put. The Septuagint version, and those that follow it, render it, "a snare": which agrees with what goes before. It seems to intend a decoy, in which many birds are put to allure others; and, what with them, and those that are drawn in by them, it becomes very full; and this sense of the comparison is favoured by the rendition or application, which follows:
so are their houses full of deceit; of mammon, gathered by deceit, as Kimchi interprets it; ungodly mammon; riches got in a fraudulent way, by cozening and cheating, tricking and overreaching:
therefore they are become great; in worldly things, and in the esteem of men, and in their own opinion, though of no account with God:
and waxen rich; not with the true riches, the riches of grace, the unsearchable riches of Christ, his durable riches and righteousness; nor indeed with the riches of the world, honestly and lawfully gotten; but with unrighteous mammon.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Against the God
(1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22, and
(2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24,
They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes Jeremiah 5:25-28. It is in this immorality that their idolatry has its root.
Jeremiah 5:22
The sea is the symbol of restless and indomitable energy, chafing against all resistance, and dashing to pieces the works whereby man endeavors to restrain its fury. Yet God has imposed upon it laws which it must obey, and keeps it in its appointed place, not by barriers of iron but by a belt of sand. Modern science has shown that the resisting power of sand is enormous. A wave which would shatter rocks fails powerless upon sand.
Can they not prevail - The opposite of “thou couldest” Jeremiah 3:5. The sea, the mightiest of God’s works, cannot prevail, cannot break God’s laws, because He has not endowed it with free-will. Man, physically impotent, can prevail, because, being made in God’s image, he is free.
Jeremiah 5:23
The heart, or will of the Jews was first “revolting,” literally a will that “drew back” from God, because it disliked His service; and secondly it was “rebellious,” a will that actively resisted Him. Compare Deuteronomy 21:18, Deuteronomy 21:20.
Jeremiah 5:24
As God’s Providence addresses itself chiefly to the thoughtful, Jeremiah says in their heart. By the intelligent study of God’s dealings men perceive that they are not merely acts of power but also of love.
The appointed weeks - literally, He guardeth, maintaineth, for us the weeks which are the statutes or settled laws “of the harvest.” These were the seven weeks from the Passover to Pentecost, and were as important for the ingathering of the crops as the rainy seasons for their nourishment.
Jeremiah 5:25
It was not that the rains did not fall, or that the harvest weeks were less bright; the good was there, but the wickedness of the community blocked up the channels, through which it shou d have reached the people. The lawlessness and injustice of the times kept the mass of the people in poverty.
Jeremiah 5:26
Rather, he spieth about like the crouching down of fowlers; they have set the fatal snare; “they catch men.”
Trap - literally, “The destroyer;” it was probably a gin, which strangled the birds caught in it.
Jeremiah 5:27
Deceit - The wealth gained by deceit and fraud.
Jeremiah 5:28
Fatness is admired in the East as a sign of wealth.
They shine - This word is used of the sleekness of the skin, soft and smooth as ivory.
They overpass the deeds of the wicked - literally, “They have overpassed words of wickedness,” i. e., they go to excess in wickedness.
Yet they prosper - Or, that they (the orphans) may prosper, enjoy their rights.
Jeremiah 5:30
Rather, A terrible “and horrible thing” has happened “in the land.”
Jeremiah 5:31
Bear rule by their means - Rather, “The priests” rule at their hands, i. e., govern according to their false prophecies, guidance, and directions.
My people love to have it so - False teaching lightens the yoke of God’s Law, and removes His fear from the conscience: and with this, man is ready to be content.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 5:27. As a cage is full of birds — There is no doubt that the reference here is to a decoy or trap-cage, as Dr. Blayney has rendered it; in these the fowlers put several tame birds, which when the wild ones see, they come and light on the cage, and fall into the snare.
