Parallel Verses
Amplified
‘As a cage is full of birds,
So are their houses full of deceit and treachery;
Therefore they have become influential and rich.
New American Standard Bible
So their houses are full of
Therefore they have become great and rich.
King James Version
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Holman Bible
so their houses are full of deceit.
Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.
International Standard Version
Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are filled with treachery. This is how they have become prominent and rich,
A Conservative Version
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grown rich.
American Standard Version
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.
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.
Darby Translation
As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.
Julia Smith Translation
As a cane full of birds, so their houses full of deceit: for this they were magnified and they will be rich.
King James 2000
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grown rich.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Like a cage full of birds, so their houses [are] full of fraud. {Therefore} they have become great, and they have become rich.
Modern King James verseion
Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And like as a net is full of birds, so are their houses full of that which they have gotten with falsity and deceit. Hereof cometh their great substance and riches,
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
The Emphasized Bible
As, a cage, is full of birds, So, are, their houses, full of unrighteous gain, - For this cause, have they become great and waxen rich:
Webster
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and have grown rich.
World English Bible
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
Youngs Literal Translation
As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.
Themes
Deceit » Evil of » Leads to pride and oppression
Deceit » The wicked full of » Their houses
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 5:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
26
‘For wicked men are found among My people,
They watch like fowlers who lie in wait;
They set a trap,
They catch men.
‘As a cage is full of birds,
So are their houses full of deceit and treachery;
Therefore they have become influential and rich.
‘They are fat and they are sleek (prosperous),
They
They do not plead the cause,
The cause of the orphan, so that they [the wicked] may prosper,
And they do not defend the rights of the poor.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 1:11-13
If they say, “Come with us;
Let us lie in wait to shed blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;
Jeremiah 9:6
“Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit [oppression upon oppression and deceit upon deceit];
Through deceit they refuse to know (understand) Me,” says the Lord.
Hosea 12:7-8
A merchant, in whose hand are false and fraudulent balances;
He loves to oppress and exploit.
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, you who trample down the needy, and do away with the poor of the land,
Micah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth (Bitterness)
Writhes in pain [at its losses] and waits anxiously for good,
Because a catastrophe has come down from the Lord
To the gate of Jerusalem.
Micah 6:10-11
“Are there not still treasures gained by wickedness
In the house of the wicked,
And a short (inaccurate) measure [for grain] that is cursed?
Habakkuk 2:9-11
“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who obtains wicked gain for his house [and thinks by so doing]
To set his nest on high,
That he may be rescued from the hand of evil.
Revelation 18:2
And he shouted with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen [certainly to be destroyed] is