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Jer 5:27 — As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

cage		or, coop. This is, without doubt, a reference to a decoy or trap-cage, as Dr. Blayney renders; in which fowlers place several tame birds, to decoy the others into the snare prepared for them. Rev 18:2
so are		Pro 1:11-13; Hsa 12:7,8; Amo 8:4-6; Mic 1:12; Mic 6:10,11; Hab 2:9-11

Correlating Passages

cage

Rev 18:2

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

so are

	Pro 1:11	If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
	Pro 1:12	Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
	Pro 1:13	We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
	Hsa 12:7	[He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
	Hsa 12:8	And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: [in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that [were] sin.
	Amo 8:4	Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
	Amo 8:5	Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
	Amo 8:6	That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?
	Mic 1:12	For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
	Mic 6:10	Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [that is] abominable?
	Mic 6:11	Shall I count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
	Hab 2:9	Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
	Hab 2:10	Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned [against] thy soul.
	Hab 2:11	For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 5:27," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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