27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
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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! …
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. …
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: …
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, …
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
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…
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