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Jeremiah 5:26

are found wicked men men of such great wickedness as to infect all.

set a trap lit. a destroyer. For an illustration of a bird-trap see on Amos 3:5 (C.B.). These men stealthily attack the poor and honest. Cp. Isaiah 29:21; Micah 7:2.

they catch men They by their wiles do as Nimrod is supposed by ancient commentators to have done by force. The Targ. on Genesis 10:9 speaks of him as "a hunter of the sons of men."

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