Jeremiah 5:26-31 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.… We have, in this chapter, a most melancholy set of pictures of untruthful men, which are drawn to the life with a grimly graphic touch which strongly reminds one of the series of Hogarth's sketches known as the "Rake's Progress." They hold the mirror up not only to the life, but to the heart of the men of the times. Jerusalem was rotten at the core: the nation was deceitful through and through. "As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit." They had schemes without number, plots without end, and tricks without limit, moving about in their minds like birds herded together in a little cage. ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. |
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