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 the efficient; as the fowler carries his cage along with him, wherein he puts the birds which he catcheth, to keep safe that they get not away, when once they are caught, as also by their appearance and singing to entice others. Therefore they are become great, and waxen rich; showing how and in what manner they got their riches, therefore, or by this means; such as are gotten by a lying tongue, Proverbs 21:6, called the treasures of wickedness, Micah 6:10.
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Jeremiah 5:27
27 As a cagec is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.