Jeremiah 5:26

Jeremiah 5:26 in other translations

What does Jeremiah 5:26 mean?

Jeremiah 5:26 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Jeremiah 5:26

• Proverbs 1:11

  If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

• Psalms 64:5

  They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

• 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.

• Ezekiel 22:2-12

  Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed. …

• Psalms 10:9-10

  He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

• Jeremiah 4:22

  For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

• 1 Samuel 19:10-11

  And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.

• Luke 5:10

  And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

• Isaiah 58:1

  Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

• Habakkuk 1:14-15

  And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

• Proverbs 1:17-18

  Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

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Context

• Jeremiah 5:25

  Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

• Jeremiah 5:26

  For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

• Jeremiah 5:27

  As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

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