Catholic Public Domain Version
"Just as a snare is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. As a result, they have become exalted and enriched. "
— Jeremiah 5:27, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.”
“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.”
And they have not said in their heart: ‘Let us dread the Lord our God, who gives us the timely and the late rains, in their proper time, who guards the full measure of the yearly harvest for us.’
Your iniquities have turned these things away, and your sins have held back good things from you.
For the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.
Just as a snare is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. As a result, they have become exalted and enriched.
They have grown stout and fat. And they have transgressed my words most wickedly. They have not judged the case of the widow; they have not given guidance to the case of the orphan; and they have not judged a judgment for the poor.
Shall I not visit against these things, says the Lord? Or shall my soul not take vengeance on a nation of this kind?
Astonishing and wondrous things have been done upon the earth.