26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.


In Context

23 But this people hath a stubborn and a rebellious heart; they have turned aside and are gone.

24 And they say not in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the early and the latter, in its season; who preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of harvest.

25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden from you what is good.

26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.

27 As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.

28 They are become fat, they shine, yea, they surpass in deeds of wickedness; they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, and they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not adjudge.

Jeremiah 5:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:26"Among my people are wicked men who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch men.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:26For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:26For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:26For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:26For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:26For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap — men they capture.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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