Jeremiah 5:26
English Standard Version
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.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 5:26 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Proverbs 1:11
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11 If they say, “Come with us, (A)let us lie in wait for blood;
(B)let us ambush the innocent without reason;
Ezekiel 22:2-12
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2 “And you, (A)son of man, (B)will you judge, will you judge (C)the bloody city? (D)Then declare to her all her abominations. 3 You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that (E)her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! 4 You have become guilty (F)by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought (G)your days near, the appointed time of[a] your years has come. (H)Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. 5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; (I)your name is defiled; (J)you are full of tumult.
6 “Behold, (K)the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7 Father and mother (L)are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner (M)suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow (N)are wronged in you. 8 (O)You have despised my holy things and (P)profaned my Sabbaths. 9 (Q)There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you (R)who eat on the mountains; (S)they commit lewdness in your midst. 10 In you (T)men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 11 (U)One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; (V)another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; (W)another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter. 12 In you (X)they take bribes to shed blood; (Y)you take interest and profit[b] and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but (Z)me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 22:4 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; most Hebrew manuscripts until
- Ezekiel 22:12 That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)
Jeremiah 18:22
English Standard Version
22 (A)May a cry be heard from their houses,
when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them!
For (B)they have dug a pit to take me
(C)and laid snares for my feet.
Habakkuk 1:14-15
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14 You make mankind like the fish of the sea,
like crawling things that have no ruler.
15 (A)He[a] brings all of them up (B)with a hook;
he drags them out with his net;
he gathers them in his dragnet;
so he rejoices and is glad.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 1:15 That is, the wicked foe
Psalm 64:5
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5 They (A)hold fast to their evil purpose;
they talk of (B)laying snares secretly,
thinking, (C)“Who can see them?”
Psalm 10:9-10
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9 he lurks in ambush like (A)a lion in his (B)thicket;
he (C)lurks that he may seize the poor;
he seizes the poor when he draws him into his (D)net.
10 The helpless are crushed, sink down,
and fall by his might.
Luke 5:10
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10 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.”[a]
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- Luke 5:10 The Greek word anthropoi refers here to both men and women
Jeremiah 4:22
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22 “For (A)my people are foolish;
they know me not;
they are stupid children;
they have no understanding.
(B)They are ‘wise’—in doing evil!
But how to do good they know not.”
Isaiah 58:1
English Standard Version
True and False Fasting
58 “Cry aloud; do not hold back;
(A)lift up your voice like a trumpet;
(B)declare to my people their transgression,
to the house of Jacob their sins.
Proverbs 1:17-18
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17 (A)For in vain is a net spread
in the sight of any bird,
18 but these men (B)lie in wait for their own blood;
they (C)set an ambush for their own lives.
1 Samuel 19:10-11
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10 (A)And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
11 (B)Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
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