King James Version (KJV)
Jeremiah 5:27
“As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 5
25
Your iniquities have turned away these [things], and your sins have withholden good [things] from you.
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.
29
Shall I not visit for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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