Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
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- Proverbs 1:11–13 If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.
- Jeremiah 9:6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
- Hosea 12:7–8 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud. Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich. I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”