Jer 5:27 | NETfull | STEP | 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.

Jeremiah 5:27

27 Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, ^{▼▼ The words, “that have been caught” are not in the text but are implicit in the comparison.}
their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. ^{▼▼ Heb “are filled with deceit.” The translation assumes a figure of speech of cause for effect (metonymy). Compare the same word in the same figure in Zeph 1:9.}
That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful. ^{▼▼ Heb “therefore they have gotten great and rich.”}