Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.
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- Proverbs 1:11–13 If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil;
- Jeremiah 9:6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.
- Hosea 12:7–8 He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.