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As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.
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The Cage of Exploitation
Scholars explain the image of a 'cage full of birds' as a fowler's basket, filled with trapped creatures. This powerful metaphor illustrates how the homes of the wicked were overflowing with the spoils of their exploitation, making their guilt visibly evident to all.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They sin against the God:
19th Century
Anglican
A cage. —The large wicker basket (Amos 8:1–2) in which the fowler kept the birds he had caught, or, possibly, used for…
Baptist
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. They are waxen fat, they shine…
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16th Century
Protestant
Jeremiah continues with the same subject. He used, as we have said, a similitude taken from fowling: he now applies this similitude to the Jews—tha…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
As a cage is full of birds Jarchi and Kimchi understand it of a place in which fowls are brought up and fattened, wh…
Unhumbled hearts are ready to charge God with being unjust in their afflictions. But they can read their sin in their punishment. If people inquire…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet speaks of the guilt of the rulers, which is frequently the cause of the guilt of their subjects. Therefore, he says,
