Jeremiah Chapter 5 verse 26 Holy Bible
For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
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For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
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For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.
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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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For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
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For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 26. - They lay wait, etc.; rather, they spy (literally, one spieth), as fowlers lie in wait. A trap; literally, a destroyer; i.e. an instrument of destruction (comp. Isaiah 54:16, where" the waster" (or destroyer) probably means the weapon referred to previously).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(26) They lay wait.--Literally, he lieth in wait (used of the leopard in Hosea 13:7), as in the crouching down of fowlers: they have set the snare. The indefinite singular in the first clause brings before us the picture of isolated guilt, the plural that of confederate evil.