25 Your guilty acts have diverted these things from you.
Your sins have withheld my bounty from you,(A)
26 for wicked men live among my people.
They watch like hunters[a] lying in wait.[b](B)
They set a trap;(C)
they catch men.
27 Like a cage full of birds,
so their houses are full of deceit.(D)
Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:26 Lit hunters of birds
  2. 5:26 Hb obscure

25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

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

27 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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