Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 5:26

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 26.) Because there were found among my people wicked ones plotting like bird catchers, setting snares and traps to capture men; like a net full of birds, so is their house full of deceit. Why did a temporary and late rain deviate from them, and all good things not come? The reasons are given: because there were…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Jeremiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

26For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them.

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24and they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved it for us.

25Your transgressions have turned away these things, and your sins have removed good things from you.

— Jeremiah 5:26 —

27As a snare which has been set is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore have they grown great, and become rich:

28and they have transgressed the rule of judgment; they have not judged the cause of the orphan, nor have they judged the cause of the widow.

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