Jeremiah Chapter 5 verse 27 Holy Bible
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.
read chapter 5 in ASV
As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
read chapter 5 in BBE
As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.
read chapter 5 in DARBY
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
read chapter 5 in KJV
read chapter 5 in WBT
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.
read chapter 5 in WEB
As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.
read chapter 5 in YLT
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - A cage. The Hebrew word klub is used in Amos 8:1 for a basket such as was used for fruit; it seems to be the parent of the Greek word κλωβός, used in the 'Anthology' for a bird-cage. The root means to plait or braid; hence some sort of basket-work seems to be meant. Connecting this with the preceding verse, Hitzig seems right in inferring that the "cage" was at the same time a trap (comp. Ecclus. 11:30, "Like as a partridge taken in a cage ἐν καρτάλλῳ, a peculiar kind of basket], so is the heart of the proud"). Canon Tristram suggests that there is an allusion to decoy-birds, which are still much employed in Syria, and are carefully trained for their office ('Natural History of the Bible,' p. 163), But this seems to go beyond the text. Deceit; i.e. the goods obtained by deceit.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) A cage.--The large wicker basket (Amos 8:1-2) in which the fowler kept the birds he had caught, or, possibly, used for decoy-birds.
