Jeremiah 5:25-27

Good News Translation

²⁵ Instead, your sins have kept these good things from you.

²⁶ “Evildoers live among my people; they lie in wait like those who lay nets to catch birds,^[a] but they have set their traps to catch people. ²⁷ Just as a hunter fills a cage with birds, they have filled their houses with loot. That is why they are powerful and rich,