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26 For wicked men are found among my people;
    they lurk like fowlers lying in wait.[a]
They set a trap;
    they catch men.
27 Like a basket full of birds,
    their houses are full of treachery;
therefore they have become great and rich,
28     they have grown fat and sleek.
They know no bounds in deeds of wickedness;
    they judge not with justice
the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper,
    and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:26 Heb uncertain

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