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Jeremiah 5:27

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25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.Select Jeremiah 5:25

26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.Select Jeremiah 5:26

27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.Select Jeremiah 5:27

28They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.Select Jeremiah 5:28

29Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?Select Jeremiah 5:29

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5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

ASV

5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.

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