Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
They
They set a trap,
They catch men.
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.
Holman Bible
They watch like fowlers lying in wait.
They set a trap;
they catch men.
International Standard Version
"Evil men are found among my people. They lie in wait like someone who traps birds. They set a trap, but they do so to catch people.
A Conservative Version
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lay in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
Amplified
‘For wicked men are found among My people,
They watch like fowlers who lie in wait;
They set a trap,
They catch men.
Bible in Basic English
For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
Darby Translation
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.
Julia Smith Translation
for evil ones were found among my people: he will look about as the stooping of fowlers; they set snares, they will take men.
King James 2000
For among my people are found wicked men: they lie in wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For wicked people are found among my people, they lie in wait like the hiding of fowlers, they set up a trap, they catch humans.
Modern King James verseion
For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For among my people are found wicked persons, that privily lay snares and wait for me, to take them and destroy them.
NET Bible
"Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.
New Heart English Bible
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
The Emphasized Bible
For there have been found among my people lawless men, - One lieth in wait, as with the stooping of fowlers, They have set a trap, they capture men:
Webster
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
World English Bible
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Snare » Figurative » Of the devices of evil people to deceive the righteous
Interlinear
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Shuwr
Natsab
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 5:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you. 26 For among my people are found wicked men: 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 are become great, and waxed rich.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
Jeremiah 18:22
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.
1 Samuel 19:10-11
And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
Psalm 10:9-10
He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
Psalm 64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?
Proverbs 1:17-18
For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Ezekiel 22:2-12
And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
Habakkuk 1:14-15
and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
Luke 5:10
and so were also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.