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25 Your iniquities have turned these away,
    and your sins have deprived you of good.
26 For scoundrels are found among my people;
    they take over the goods of others.
Like fowlers they set a trap;[a]
    they catch human beings.
27 Like a cage full of birds,
    their houses are full of treachery;
therefore they have become great and rich,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:26 Meaning of Heb uncertain

25 Your wrongdoings have kept these away;
    your sins have deprived you of good.(A)

26 “Among my people are the wicked(B)
    who lie in wait(C) like men who snare birds
    and like those who set traps(D) to catch people.
27 Like cages full of birds,
    their houses are full of deceit;(E)
they have become rich(F) and powerful

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