Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich;

笼内怎样满了雀鸟，他们的房中也照样充满诡诈；所以他们得成为大，而且富足。

笼子怎样装满雀鸟，他们的屋里也照样充满诡诈；他们因此得以强大富足。

笼子怎样装满雀鸟，他们的屋里也照样充满诡诈；他们因此得以强大富足。

他们的家里充满了诡诈，就像笼子装满了鸟。他们变得有财有势，

笼中怎样满了雀鸟，他们的屋里也满了诡诈；他们就因此财雄势大。

籠內怎樣滿了雀鳥，他們的房中也照樣充滿詭詐；所以他們得成為大，而且富足。

籠子怎樣裝滿雀鳥，他們的屋裏也照樣充滿詭詐；他們因此得以強大富足。

籠子怎樣裝滿雀鳥，他們的屋裏也照樣充滿詭詐；他們因此得以強大富足。

他們的家裡充滿了詭詐，就像籠子裝滿了鳥。他們變得有財有勢，

籠中怎樣滿了雀鳥，他們的屋裡也滿了詭詐；他們就因此財雄勢大。

籠內怎樣滿了雀鳥，他們屋裏也怎樣充滿着詭詐所捉着的；因此他們成了昌大富裕的人。

籠充以禽鳥、其室亦充以詭詐、因而昌盛富有、

籠之有鳥、以誘飛禽、斯民中藏偽詐、以致巨富、亦若是。

其室中充以詐得之財、若籠之充以鳥、因而強盛富有、

Like cages full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; they have become rich and powerful

A hunter uses tricks to fill his cage with birds. And my people have filled their houses with a lot of goods. They have become rich and powerful.

Like a cage filled with birds, their homes are filled with evil plots. And now they are great and rich.

Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.

Like a cage full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit; Therefore they have become great and rich.

As a cage is full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.

Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.

As a cage is full of birds, so[ are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

“ Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.

If they say,“ Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder;

And he called out with a mighty voice,“ Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.

A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.Ephraim has said,“ Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”

Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,saying,“ When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because disaster has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.