Jeremiah 5:27 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 5:27

Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.

KJV

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah (420)

(Verse 27 and following) Therefore they have been magnified and enriched: they have become fat and grown thick, and have passed over my words wickedly: they have not judged the cause, the cause of the orphan, so they did not direct the judgment of the poor (or widow). Will I not visit them for these things, says the Lord: or will not my soul take vengeance upon a nation of this kind? If I were to list all the things that have been omitted in the Septuagint edition, it would be a long task.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

As a cage is full of birds,.... Jarchi and Kimchi understand it of a place in which fowls, are brought up and fattened, what we call a "pen"; and, so the Targum renders it, a house or place of fattening. The word is rendered a "basket" in Amo 8:1 and may here design one in which birds taken in snares, or by hawking, were put. The Septuagint version, and those that follow it, render it, "a snare": which agrees with what goes before.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

As a cage is full of birds - There is no doubt that the reference here is to a decoy or trap-cage, as Dr. Blayney has rendered it; in these the fowlers put several tame birds, which when the wild ones see, they come and light on the cage, and fall into the snare.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּכְלוּב֙	kikh.Luv	like a cage	H3619 →
מָ֣לֵא	Ma.le'	full	H4392 →
ע֔וֹף	of	bird[s]	H5775 →
כֵּ֥ן	ken	so	H3651 →
בָּתֵּיהֶ֖ם	ba.tei.Hem	houses their	H1004 →
מְלֵאִ֣ים	me.le.'Im	[are] full	H4392 →
מִרְמָ֑ה	mir.Mah	deceit	H4820 →
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּ֥ן	ken	-fore	H3651 →
גָּדְל֖וּ	ga.de.Lu	they have become great	H1431 →
וַֽיַּעֲשִֽׁירוּ׃	Vai.ya.'a.Shi.ru	and they have gained riches	H6238 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 9:6
You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
leads to
- Hosea 4:6
  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget…
- Jeremiah 13:10
  These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this…
- Proverbs 1:24
  Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
- Romans 1:28
  Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- John 3:19–20
  And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
Through
Micah 1:12
For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
leads to
- Jeremiah 14:19
  Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of…
- Micah 1:9
  For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.
- Amos 3:6
  If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Jeremiah