Jeremiah 5:26

Among God's people are wicked men who trap their fellow human beings like bird-catchers. It matters because it exposes predatory injustice within the covenant community.

Cross-references · 11

• Prov 1:11If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
• Ps 64:5They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”
• Jer 18:22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.
• Ezek 22:2–12“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
• Ps 10:9–10He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
• 1 Sam 19:10–11Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.
• Hab 1:14–15and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
• Isa 58:1“Cry aloud, don’t spare. Lift up your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
• Luke 5:10and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”
• Jer 4:22“For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
• Prov 1:17–18For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

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