Parallel Verses
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.
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
Matsa'
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 withheld good things from you.
26
They
They set a trap,
They catch men.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us, let us lay in wait for blood; let us ambush 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 dug a pit to take me and hid snares for my feet.
1 Samuel 19:10-11
And Saul sought to smite David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, who smote the spear into the wall; and David fled and escaped that night.
Psalm 10:9-10
He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.
Psalm 64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil matter; they attempt to hide the snares; they say, Who shall see them?
Proverbs 1:17-18
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, do not hold back; lift up thy voice like a shofar and preach to my people their rebellion and to the house of Jacob their sin.
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish; the ignorant sons with no understanding have not known me; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Ezekiel 22:2-12
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou not judge, wilt thou not judge the city that spills innocent blood and cause her to know all her abominations?
Habakkuk 1:14-15
And dost make men as the fishes of the sea, as reptiles that have no lord?
Luke 5:10
and likewise James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from now on thou shalt catch men.