Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
So their houses are full of
Therefore they have become great and 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.
Amplified
‘As a cage is full of birds,
So are their houses full of deceit and treachery;
Therefore they have become influential and 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
Bayith
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 5:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. 28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 1:11-13
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Jeremiah 9:6
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Hosea 12:7-8
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Micah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
Micah 6:10-11
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Habakkuk 2:9-11
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
Revelation 18:2
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.