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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 5:27 - King James

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Jer 5:27 King James As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
full of deceit--full of treasures got by deceit.

rich-- (Psa 73:12, Psa 73:18-20).
 
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18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.