Jeremiah 5:25-27

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁵ Your iniquities have turned these away,
    and your sins have deprived you of good.
²⁶ For scoundrels are found among my people;
    they take over the goods of others.
Like fowlers they set a trap;^[a]
    they catch human beings.
²⁷ Like a cage full of birds,
    their houses are full of treachery;
therefore they have become great and rich,