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Jeremiah 5:26

in Jeremiah 5

For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

KJV

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

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This verse in Jeremiah 5

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

(Verse 26.) Because there were found among my people wicked ones plotting like bird catchers, setting snares and traps to capture men; like a net full of birds, so is their house full of deceit. Why did a temporary and late rain deviate from them, and all good things not come? The reasons are given: because there were found among his people wicked ones. He did not say, the unjust and sinners (as the new heresy wants), but the wicked. Impiety openly denies God; if it confesses error iniquity and sin, it easily turns God to mercy.

This site's exposition

they lay wait, as he that setteth snares

on Jeremiah 5:26-29

The indictment turns to the traps set by the people's own wicked men, houses full of deceit as a cage is full of birds, wealth built on exactly the kind of predation the law existed to forbid, the cause of the fatherless and the right of the needy left unjudged by men grown fat prospering from it. Shall I not visit for these things repeats the question already asked at verse 9, the same charge and the same certainty of an answer returning before the chapter closes.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

They catch - Such a trap did Jezebel lay for Naboth, 1 Kings xxi, 9, 10. Such an one was that conspiracy of more than forty men against Paul, Acts xxiii, 13-15.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • נִמְצְא֥וּthey are found

    nimtzeuH4672 →455 times

  • בְעַמִּ֖יamong people my

    veamiH5971 →1873 times

  • רְשָׁעִ֑יםwicked [people]

    reshaimH7563 →263 times

  • יָשׁוּר֙he watches

    yashurH7789 →

  • כְּשַׁ֣ךְas bend

    keshakhH7918 →

  • יְקוּשִׁ֔יםfowlers

    yekushimH3353 →

  • הִצִּ֥יבוּthey set

    hitzivuH5324 →

  • מַשְׁחִ֖יתa destroyer

    mashchitH4889 →

  • אֲנָשִׁ֥יםpeople

    ʾanashimH582 →566 times

  • יִלְכֹּֽדוּ׃they catch

    yilkoduH3920 →121 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 25:15My eyes are always on the LORD, for He will free my feet from the mesh.15 worksProverbs 1:11If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,10 worksPsalms 64:5They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.7 worksMicah 7:2The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.7 worksEzekiel 22:2–12“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations6 worksJeremiah 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.6 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Psalms 10:9–10He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.5 worksPsalms 124:7We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.5 works1 Samuel 19:10–11Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.4 worksHabakkuk 1:14–15You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.4 worksIsaiah 58:1“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.3 worksJeremiah 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”3 worksLuke 5:10and so were his partners James and John, the sons of Zebedee. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus said to Simon. “From now on you will catch men.”3 worksJeremiah 9:8Their tongues are deadly arrows; they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.3 worksProverbs 12:6The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.3 worksJeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.3 worksProverbs 1:17–18How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!2 works1 Samuel 18:21“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 64:5

    They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 140:5

      The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Psalms 10:11

      He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

    • Ezekiel 8:12

      “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are…

    • Job 22:13

      Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

  • Through

    Jeremiah 18:22

    Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 6:26

      O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

    • Jeremiah 25:34–36

      Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For the days of your slaughter have come; you will fall and be shattered like fine pottery.

  • Through

    Proverbs 1:11

    If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 1:18

      But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

    • Proverbs 12:6

      The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 5 →

This page draws on Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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