Bible in Basic English
"For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it."
— Jeremiah 5:26, Bible in Basic English
“For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.”
“For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men. ”
““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.”
“For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.”
But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.
And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.
For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
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.
They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?