 | Thomas Street Millington - 1863 - 888 strani
...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...: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. The cage intended here is a trap in which decoy birds were placed to entice others, and which was furnished... | |
 | Abiel Silver - 1863 - 300 strani
...will I defend Jerusalem." And in Jeremiah, our Lord, in speaking of the people of His church, says, " As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit." Now what similarity can there be between the deceit of the human mind and a cage full of birds, upon... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1865 - 976 strani
...people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full...fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the the needy do they not judge. Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul... | |
 | William V. Spencer - 1865 - 368 strani
...people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap; they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full...therefore, they are become great, and -waxen rich. Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1865 - 538 strani
...higher than they. Is. 61: 8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt-offering. Jer. 5: 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full...: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. i!8 They are waxen fat, they shine : yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked : they judge not the... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 482 strani
...found wicked men : they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full...: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. V. 26-27. Here is a reference to a colour of law and justice, do more misdecoy or trap-cage, in which... | |
 | Henry Cowles - 1869 - 466 strani
...means. Their houses are full, not of deceit so properly, as of the fruits and avails of their deceit 28. They are waxen fat, they shine ; yea, they overpass...cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper ; aud the right of the needy do they not judge. Living deliciously on the fruits of others' toil, their... | |
 | Henry Cowles - 1869 - 444 strani
...are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sctteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full...: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. " Wicked men " must be taken here in a specially strong, emphatic sense, as the word " sinner " is... | |
 | Charles Dallas Marston - 1869 - 82 strani
...holiness, was Judah called. Sin was rampant among the people. " Among my people are found wicked men : as a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit : they overpass the . deeds of the wicked." These were some of the charges that God brought against... | |
 | John George Wood - 1870 - 744 strani
...are found wicked men : they lay wait, as he that setteth snares ; they set a trap, they catch men. " As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit" There is but little doubt that the word which is rendered here as " cage " really signifies a trap,... | |
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For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. 
