Jeremiah 5:26
“For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.”
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
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.
Cross-References
“Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.”
“If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:”
“Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.”
“They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?”
“Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.”