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 fowlers lying in wait.[a](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.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:26 Hb obscure

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