Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 5:26

"For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men." — Jeremiah 5:26 (ASV)

They lay wait. —Literally, he lies in wait (used of the leopard in Hosea 13:7), as in the crouching down of bird-catchers: they have set the snare. The indefinite singular in the first clause brings before us the picture of isolated guilt, the plural that of confederate evil.