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


In Context

23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

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

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

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

28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

Jeremiah 5:26 in Other Translations

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 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.