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Jeremiah 5:26 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 5 · verse 26
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.Jeremiah 5:26 · King James Version
Jeremiah 5:26 in context
24Neither 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.
25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28They 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.
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Key words (Strong's)
- settethshâkakto weave a trapH7918 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- wickedrâshâʻmorally wrongH7563 →
- snaresyâqûwshproperly, entangledH3353 →
- foundmâtsâʼproperly, to come forth toH4672 →
- catchlâkadto catchH3920 →
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Here, I. The prophet shows them what mischief their sins had done them: They have turned away these things (Jer 5:25), the former and the latter rain, which they used to have in due season (Jer 5:24), but which had of late been withheld (Jer 3:3), by reason of which the appointed weeks of harvest had sometimes…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 25-31