Jeremiah 5:27

“As a cage is full of birds, etc.] 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 fattening. The word is rendered a “basket” in (<300801>Amos 8:1,2) and may here design one in which birds taken in snares, or by hawking, were put. The Septuagint version, and those that follow it, render it, “a snare”: which agrees with what goes before. It seems to intend a decoy, in which many birds are put to allure others; and, what with them, and those that are drawn in by them, it becomes very full; and this sense of the comparison is favoured by the rendition or application, which follows: so…”

“full of deceit--full of treasures got by deceit. rich-- (Psa 73:12, Psa 73:18-20).”

“Against the God (1) of Creation Jeremiah 5:22, and (2) of Providence Jeremiah 5:24, They sin, not merely by apostasy, but by a general immorality extending to all classes Jeremiah 5:25-28. It is in this immorality that their idolatry has its root. Jeremiah 5:22 The sea is the symbol of restless and indomitable energy, chafing against all resistance, and dashing to pieces the works whereby man endeavors to restrain its fury. Yet God has imposed upon it laws which it must obey, and keeps it in its appointed place, not by barriers of iron but by a belt of sand. Modern science has shown that the resisting power of sand is enormous. A wave which would shatter rocks fails powerless upon sand. Can…”

“Their houses - They fill their houses with the goods of those they deceive, and over - reach. Jeremiah 5:28”

“cage: or, coop, This is, without doubt, a reference to a decoy or trap-cage, as Dr. Blayney renders; in which fowlers place several tame birds, to decoy the others into the snare prepared for them. Rev 18:2 so are: Pro 1:11-13; Hos 12:7, Hos 12:8; Amo 8:4-6; Mic 1:12, Mic 6:10, Mic 6:11; Hab 2:9-11 Jeremiah 5:28”