Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
New American Standard Bible
They
They set a trap,
They catch men.
King James Version
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Holman Bible
They watch like fowlers lying in wait.
They set a trap;
they catch men.
International Standard Version
"Evil men are found among my people. They lie in wait like someone who traps birds. They set a trap, but they do so to catch people.
A Conservative Version
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lay in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
American Standard Version
For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
Amplified
‘For wicked men are found among My people,
They watch like fowlers who lie in wait;
They set a trap,
They catch men.
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.
Darby Translation
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.
Julia Smith Translation
for evil ones were found among my people: he will look about as the stooping of fowlers; they set snares, they will take men.
King James 2000
For among my people are found wicked men: they lie in wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For wicked people are found among my people, they lie in wait like the hiding of fowlers, they set up a trap, they catch humans.
Modern King James verseion
For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For among my people are found wicked persons, that privily lay snares and wait for me, to take them and destroy them.
NET Bible
"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.
New Heart English Bible
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
The Emphasized Bible
For there have been found among my people lawless men, - One lieth in wait, as with the stooping of fowlers, They have set a trap, they capture men:
Webster
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
World English Bible
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
Themes
Snare » Figurative » Of the devices of evil people to deceive the righteous
Interlinear
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Shuwr
Natsab
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 5:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
25 Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you. 26 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. 27 As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
Jeremiah 18:22
A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.
1 Samuel 19:10-11
and Saul seeketh to smite with the javelin through David, and through the wall, and he freeth himself from the presence of Saul, and he smiteth the javelin through the wall; and David hath fled and escapeth during that night.
Psalm 10:9-10
He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.
Psalm 64:5
They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?'
Proverbs 1:17-18
Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
Isaiah 58:1
Call with the throat, restrain not, As a trumpet lift up thy voice, And declare to My people their transgression, And to the house of Jacob their sins;
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons are they, yea, they are not intelligent, Wise are they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.
Ezekiel 22:2-12
'And thou, son of man, dost thou judge? dost thou judge the city of blood? then thou hast caused it to know all its abominations,
Habakkuk 1:14-15
And Thou makest man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping thing -- none ruling over him.
Luke 5:10
and in like manner also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon; and Jesus said unto Simon, 'Fear not, henceforth thou shalt be catching men;'