Jeremiah 5:27

cage The Hebrew word occurs elsewhere only in Amos (Jeremiah 8:1), "a basketof summer fruit." Here, however, Cheyne (Pulpit Comm., ad loc.), quoting Hitzig, thinks that "the cage was at the same time a trap." He quotes Sir 11:30 (see note in C.B.), "As a decoy partridge in a cage," where the Greek word used is that with which LXX render "baskets" in Jeremiah 6:9.

deceit riches won by craft, as birds by the fowler.