Jeremiah 5:27 Cross References

Jeremiah 5:27

27: Like a cage filled with birds, their homes are filled with evil plots. And the result? Now they are great and rich.

Amos 8:4

  1. Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample the needy!
  2. You can't wait for the Sabbath day to be over and the religious festivals to end so you can get back to cheating the helpless. You measure out your grain in false measures and weigh it out on dishonest scales.
  3. And you mix the wheat you sell with chaff swept from the floor! Then you enslave poor people for a debt of one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.

Hosea 12:7

  1. But no, the people are like crafty merchants selling from dishonest scales--they love to cheat.
  2. Israel boasts, "I am rich, and I've gotten it all by myself! No one can say I got it by cheating! My record is spotless!"

Jeremiah 9:6

  1. They pile lie upon lie and utterly refuse to come to me," says the LORD.

Micah 6:10

  1. Will there be no end of your getting rich by cheating? The homes of the wicked are filled with treasures gained by dishonestly measuring out grain in short measures.
  2. And how can I tolerate all your merchants who use dishonest scales and weights?

Habakkuk 2:9

  1. "How terrible it will be for you who get rich by unjust means! You believe your wealth will buy security, putting your families beyond the reach of danger.
  2. But by the murders you committed, you have shamed your name and forfeited your lives.
  3. The very stones in the walls of your houses cry out against you, and the beams in the ceilings echo the complaint.

Micah 1:12

  1. The people of Maroth anxiously wait for relief, but only bitterness awaits them as the LORD's judgment reaches even to the gates of Jerusalem.

Revelation 18:2

  1. He gave a mighty shout, "Babylon is fallen--that great city is fallen! She has become the hideout of demons and evil spirits, a nest for filthy buzzards, and a den for dreadful beasts.

Proverbs 1:11

  1. They may say, "Come and join us. Let's hide and kill someone! Let's ambush the innocent!
  2. Let's swallow them alive as the grave swallows its victims. Though they are in the prime of life, they will go down into the pit of death.
  3. And the loot we'll get! We'll fill our houses with all kinds of things!
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