Jeremiah 5:26
World English Bible (WEB)
For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
In context
24 They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
25 “Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
26 For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
Jeremiah 5:26 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
- KJV 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
- ASV 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.
- YLT Young's 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.
- DBY Darby Translation
- For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For among my people are found wicked men : they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.