Jeremiah 5:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Jeremiah 5:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 1:11
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Psalms 10:9-10
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. …
Jeremiah 18:22
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Ezekiel 22:2-12
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. …
Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 25-31)

Here, I. The prophet shows them what mischief their sins had done them: They have turned away these things (Jer. 5:25), the former and the latter rain, which they used to have in due season (Jer. 5:24), but which had of late been withheld (Jer. 3:3), by reason of which the appointed weeks of harvest had sometimes disappointed them. “It is your sin that has withholden good from you, when God was re…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. (Pr 1:11, 17, 18; Ha 1:15). as he that setteth snares--rather, “as fowlers crouch” [Maurer]. trap--literally, “destruction”: the instrument of destruction. catch men--not as Peter, to save (Lu 5:10), but to destroy men.