Jeremiah 5:26
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
American King James Version (AKJV)
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
American Standard Version (ASV)
For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
Webster's Revision
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
World English Bible
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
English Revised Version (ERV)
For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
Clarke's Jeremiah 5:26 Bible Commentary
They lay wait, as he that setteth snares - A metaphor taken from fowlers, who, having fixed their nets, lie down and keep out of sight, that when birds come, they may be ready to draw and entangle them.
Barnes's Jeremiah 5:26 Bible Commentary
Rather, he spieth about like the crouching down of fowlers; they have set the fatal snare; "they catch men."
Trap - literally, "The destroyer;" it was probably a gin, which strangled the birds caught in it.
Wesley's Jeremiah 5:26 Bible Commentary
5:26 They catch - Such a trap did Jezebel lay for Naboth, 21:9 ,10. Such an one was that conspiracy of morethan forty men against Paul, Acts 23:13 - 15.
