Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
Amplified
‘For wicked men are found among My people,
They watch like fowlers who lie in wait;
They set a trap,
They catch men.
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 Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you. 26 For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it. 27 As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.
1 Samuel 19:10-11
And Saul would have sent his spear through him, pinning him to the wall, but he got away and the spear went into the wall: and that night David went in flight and got away.
Psalm 10:9-10
He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.
Psalm 64:5
They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,
Proverbs 1:17-18
Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:
Isaiah 58:1
Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.
Ezekiel 22:2-12
And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.
Habakkuk 1:14-15
He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.
Luke 5:10
And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were working with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from this time forward you will be a fisher of men.