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.


In Context

23 And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.

24 And they have not said in their heart, 'Let us fear, we pray you, Jehovah our God, who is giving rain, The sprinkling and the gathered, in its season, The appointed weeks of harvest He keepeth for us.'

25 Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.

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

27 As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.

28 They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless — and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

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 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 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.