"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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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and have enriched themselves.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and have grown rich.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.
As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.