Jeremiah 5:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Jeremiah 5:27 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Habakkuk 2:9-11
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! …
Hosea 12:7-8
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. …
Proverbs 1:11-13
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: …
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, …
Micah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

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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. 27)

27. full of deceit--full of treasures got by deceit. rich--(Psa 73:12, 18-20).