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


In Context

23 But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.

24 And they have not said in their heart: let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fullness of the yearly harvest.

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

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

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

28 They are grown gross and fat: andhave most wickedly transgressed my words. They have not judged the cause of the widow, they have not managed the cause of the fatherless, they have not judged the judgement of the poor.

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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; 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.