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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Gill's Exposition
As a cage is full of birds,.... Jarchi and Kimchi understand it of a place in which fowls, are brought up and fattened, what we call a "pen"; and, so the Targum renders it, a house or place of…
Against the God (1) of Creation Jer 5:22, and (2) of Providence Jer 5:24, They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes Jer 5:25-28. It is in this immorality…
Here, I. The prophet shows them what mischief their sins had done them: They have turned away these things (Jer 5:25), the former and the latter rain, which they used to have in due season (Jer 5:24),…
Cambridge Bible
cage The Hebrew word occurs elsewhere only in Amos (Jer 8:1), "a basketof summer fruit." Here, however, Cheyne (Pulpit Comm., ad loc.), quoting Hitzig, thinks that "the cage was at the same time a…
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