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."
— Jeremiah 5:27, Bible in Basic English
“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 waxed rich. ”
“As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew 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.”
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?
A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;