Jeremiah 5:25-27

Christian Standard Bible

²⁵ Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you.
Your sins have withheld my bounty from you,^(A)
26 for wicked men live among my people.
They watch like hunters^[a] lying in wait.^[b](B)
They set a trap;^(C)
they catch men.
²⁷ Like a cage full of birds,
so their houses are full of deceit.^(D)
Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.