Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked : they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
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24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Yahuah our Elohim, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
25 Your iniquities have turned away these , and your sins have withholden good from you.
26 For among my people are found wicked : they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
27 As a cage is full of birds, so their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.