Bible Verses Like Jeremiah 5:26

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

 

Bible verses related to Jeremiah 5:26 (similar cross-references)


Proverbs 1:11 - If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:   (Verses like Proverbs 1:11)

Jeremiah 18:22 - Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.   (Verses like Jeremiah 18:22)

1 Samuel 19:10-11 - And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.   (Verses like 1 Samuel 19:10)

Psalms 10:9-10 - He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.   (Verses like Psalms 10:9)

Psalms 64:5 - They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?   (Verses like Psalms 64:5)

Proverbs 1:17-18 - Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.   (Verses like Proverbs 1:17)

Isaiah 58:1 - Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.   (Verses like Isaiah 58:1)

Jeremiah 4:22 - For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.   (Verses like Jeremiah 4:22)

Ezekiel 22:2-12 - Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.   (Verses like Ezekiel 22:2)

Habakkuk 1:14-15 - And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.   (Verses like Habakkuk 1:14)

Luke 5:10 - And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.   (Verses like Luke 5:10)