26 For wicked men are found among my people;
    (A)they lurk like fowlers lying in wait.[a]
(B)They set a trap;
    they catch men.
27 Like a cage full of birds,
    their houses are full of deceit;
therefore they have become great and rich;
28     (C)they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of evil;
    (D)they judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
    and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:26 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

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