Jeremiah 5:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

They lay wait ... set a trap ... catch men - (Proverbs 1:11; Proverbs 1:17-18; Habakkuk 1:15).

As he that setteth snares - rather, 'as fowlers crouch' [shak] (Buxtorf).

Trap - literally, destruction: the instrument of destruction.

Catch men - not, as Peter, to save alive [zoogrein] (Luke 5:10) but to destroy, men.

Jeremiah 5:26

26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.