Jeremiah 5:25-27
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
25 Your crimes have prevented these things,
your sins have turned these blessings away from you.(A)
26 For criminals lurk among my people;
like fowlers they set traps,
but it is human beings they catch.(B)
27 Their houses are as full of treachery
as a bird-cage is of birds;
Therefore they grow powerful and rich,
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