Jeremiah 5:26
Modern Translations
New International Version
"Among my people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch people.

New Living Translation
“Among my people are wicked men who lie in wait for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind. They continually set traps to catch people.

English Standard Version
For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

Berean Study Bible
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

New American Standard Bible
‘For wicked people are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch people.

NASB 1995
'For wicked men are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch men.

NASB 1977
‘For wicked men are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch men.

Amplified Bible
‘For wicked men are found among My people, They watch like fowlers who lie in wait; They set a trap, They catch men.

Christian Standard Bible
for wicked men live among my people. They watch like hunters lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for wicked men live among My people. They watch like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

Contemporary English Version
A hunter traps birds and puts them in a cage, but some of you trap humans and make them your slaves.

Good News Translation
"Evildoers live among my people; they lie in wait like those who lay nets to catch birds, but they have set their traps to catch people.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Wicked people are found among my people. They lie in ambush like bird catchers. They set traps and catch people.

International Standard Version
"Evil men are found among my people. They lie in wait like someone who traps birds. They set a trap, but they do so to catch people.

NET Bible
"Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

New King James Version
‘For among My people are found wicked men; They lie in wait as one who sets snares; They set a trap; They catch men.

King James 2000 Bible
For among my people are found wicked men: they lie in wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

New Heart English Bible
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

World English Bible
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

American King James Version
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

American Standard Version
For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

A Faithful Version
For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Darby Bible Translation
For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.

English Revised Version
For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For among my people are founde wicked persons, that lay waite as hee that setteth snares: they haue made a pit, to catch men.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For among my people are found wicked persons, that priuily lay snares and wayte for men, to take them and destroy them.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For amonge my people are founde wicked personnes, that priuely laye snares and waite for men, to take them, and destroye them.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For the wicked have been found among My people. He watches like one who sets snares, "" They have set up a trap—they capture men.

Young's Literal Translation
For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

Smith's Literal Translation
For evil ones were found among my people: he will look about as the stooping of fowlers; they set snares, they will take men.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For the impious are found among my people; they lie in ambush like fowlers setting snares, for they set traps to catch men.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because sinners are found in my nation, and they set snares like hedges, that the children of men may be captured by them

Lamsa Bible
For among my people are found wicked men; they have laid snares like hedges that they may catch men with them.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For among My people are found wicked men; They pry, as fowlers lie in wait; They set a trap, they catch men.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For among my people were found ungodly men; and they have set snares to destroy men, and have caught them.
















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