Jeremiah 5:26 Parallel Translations

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

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.

DBY:

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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.

Jeremiah 5:26 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 10:9 He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair; He lurks to catch the afflicted; He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

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

Jeremiah 18:22 May an outcry be heard from their houses, When You suddenly bring raiders upon them; For they have dug a pit to capture me And hidden snares for my feet.

Habakkuk 1:15 The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook, Drag them away with their net, And gather them together in their fishing net. Therefore they rejoice and are glad. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

5:26 They catch - Such a trap did Jezebel lay for Naboth, 1Kings 21:9,10. Such an one was that conspiracy of more than forty men against Paul, Acts 23:13 - 15.

MHC:

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.

CONC:

Birds Capture Catch Covering Fowlers Lay Lie Lurk Lying Net Pry Setteth Sinners Snare Snares Stoop Trap Traps Wait Watch Watching Wicked

Birds Capture Catch Covering Found Fowlers Lie Lurk Net Sinners Snare Snares Stoop Trap Traps Wait Watch Watching Wicked

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