Jeremiah 5:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ As a cagec is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. ”

Jeremiah 5:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Against the God (1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22 , and (2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24 , They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes Jeremiah 5:25-2...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Let Evil-doers Fear Yahweh. The folly of not fearing Yahweh is rebuked by a reminder of the power of Him who has set an impassable limit even to the sea ( cf. the rebuke of Job's presumption by th...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah goes on with the same subject. He made use, as we have said, of a similitude taken from fowling: he now applies this similitude to the Jews, — that their houses were full of fraud...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. As a cage is full of birds - There is no doubt that the reference here is to a decoy...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

As a cage is full of birds— A trap-cage. כלוב kelub, comes from כלב keleb, a dog; and this name was undoubtedly given to the trap-cage, because it served the same purpose as a dog in assist...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. Full of deceit - full of treasures gotten by deceit. Rich - ( Psalms 73:12...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness.
Jeremiah 5:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A cage. — The large wicker basket ( Amos 8:1-2 ) in which the fowler kept the birds he had caught, or, possibly, used for decoy-birds.
Jeremiah 5:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 5:1-31 ; Jeremiah 6:1-30 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would understand what is written here and elsewhere in the pages of p...
Jeremiah 5:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet now carefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the utter corruption of conduct. Among the people not a man was to lie fou...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The complaint in those verses ends with the same solemn and just enquiry, as we had before. I have often thought, and I see no reason to alter the sentiment, that never was there a scripture more sui...
Jeremiah 5:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

As a cage is full of birds ,.... Jarchi and Kimchi understand it of a place in which fowls, are brought up and fattened, what we call a "pen"; and, so the Targum renders it, a house or place of fatt...
Jeremiah 5:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. Ver. 27. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit, ] i.e.,...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Your iniquities have turned away these things See note on Jeremiah 3:3 . For among my people are found wicked men I need not search for such among the heathen nations, for they are easily found...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulation with Israel. B. C. 608. 25 Your iniquities have turned away these thing...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit, i.e. they fill up their houses with the goods and wealth of those that they deceive and overreach; ill-gotten goods; a metonymy of th...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Presents The Reasons Why The Invasion Is Necessary ( Jeremiah 5:1-31 ). Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people in Jerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both s...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the chapter . The description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation leads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s time...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 5:10-12 . Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for the are not the LORD'S. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt ve...
Jeremiah 5:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 5:2 . Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear falsely. These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, not sentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied his p...
Jeremiah 5:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great and waxen rich. Wicked professors the bane of the Church I. God has a people on earth. 1. His...
Jeremiah 5:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Is the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition of Jerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precipitate its people into ruin? There are four well-ma...
Jeremiah 5:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Blindness of Heart, Ingratitude, Deceit, and Violence
Jeremiah 5:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 8:4-6 ; Habakkuk 2:9-11 ; Hosea 12:7 ; Hosea 12:8 ; Micah 1:12 ; Micah 6:10 ; Micah 6:11 ; Proverbs 1:11-13 ; Revelation 18:2
Jeremiah 5:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Their houses — They fill their houses with the goods of those they deceive, and over — reach.

Jeremiah 5:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 5:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 5:27 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 5:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 5:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 5:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 5:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 5:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 5:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 5:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 5:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 5:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 5:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 5:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 5:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 5:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 5:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 5:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 5:27 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 5:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 5:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 5:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 5:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 5:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 5:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes