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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
כי נמצאו בעמי רשעים ישור כשך יקושים הציבו משחית אנשים ילכדו
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
ky nmTSAv b`my rSH`ym ySHvr kSHk yqvSHym hTSybv mSHKHyt AnSHym ylkdv

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
quia inventi sunt in populo meo impii insidiantes quasi aucupes laqueos ponentes et pedicas ad capiendos viros

King James Variants
American King James Version   
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
For among my people are found wicked men: they lie in wait, as he that sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Authorized (King James) Version   
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
New King James Version   
‘For among My people are found wicked men; They lie in wait as one who sets snares; They set a trap; They catch men.
21st Century King James Version   
For among My people are found wicked men; they lie in wait as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
Darby Bible Translation   
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
For among my people are found wicked men, that lie in wait as fowlers, setting snares and traps to catch men.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
God's Word   
"Wicked people are found among my people. They lie in ambush like bird catchers. They set traps and catch people.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
for wicked men live among My people. They watch like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
International Standard Version   
"Evil men are found among my people. They lie in wait like someone who traps birds. They set a trap, but they do so to catch people.
NET Bible   
"Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.
New American Standard Bible   
'For wicked men are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch men.
New International Version   
"Among my people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch people.
New Living Translation   
"Among my people are wicked men who lie in wait for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind. They continually set traps to catch people.
Webster's Bible Translation   
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
The World English Bible   
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
EasyEnglish Bible   
There are wicked men among my people. They like to catch people and rob them. They hide like someone who wants to catch a bird. They put out their traps to kill what they want.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.
New Life Version   
For sinful men are found among My people. They watch like men lying in wait watching for birds. They set a trap, and they catch men.
The Voice Bible   
Lurking among My own people are the wicked who watch and wait, preying on the less fortunate. Like hunters who set traps for birds, they ensnare people for their own benefit.
Living Bible   
Among my people are wicked men who lurk for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind. They set their traps for men.
New Catholic Bible   
For there are wicked scoundrels among my people who, like fowlers, set traps, but with men as their quarry.
Legacy Standard Bible   
For wicked men are found among My people; They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap; They catch men.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
For among my people were found wicked men: they lay in wait as he that sets snares; they set a trap of perdition to catch men.
Christian Standard Bible   
for wicked men live among my people. They watch like hunters lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
For among My people are found wicked men; they watch like fowlers who lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
New Century Version   
There are wicked men among my people. Like those who make nets for catching birds, they set their traps to catch people.
The Message   
“My people are infiltrated by wicked men, unscrupulous men on the hunt. They set traps for the unsuspecting. Their victims are innocent men and women. Their houses are stuffed with ill-gotten gain, like a hunter’s bag full of birds. Pretentious and powerful and rich, hugely obese, oily with rolls of fat. Worse, they have no conscience. Right and wrong mean nothing to them. They stand for nothing, stand up for no one, throw orphans to the wolves, exploit the poor. Do you think I’ll stand by and do nothing about this?” God’s Decree. “Don’t you think I’ll take serious measures against a people like this? * * *
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Wicked men are found among my people. Like men who trap birds, they lie in wait for my people to set traps and catch people.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
For scoundrels are found among my people; they take over the goods of others. Like fowlers they set a trap; they catch human beings.
Good News Translation®   
“Evildoers live among my people; they lie in wait like those who lay nets to catch birds, but they have set their traps to catch people.
Wycliffe Bible   
For there be found wicked men in my people, setting treason, as fowlers setting snares and traps, to take men. (For the wicked be found among my people, setting treason, like fowlers settings snares and traps, to take hold of, or to catch, people.)
Contemporary English Version   
A hunter traps birds and puts them in a cage, but some of you trap humans and make them your slaves.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
For the wicked are found among my people. They lie in wait like hunters; destroyers, they catch humans.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
For scoundrels are found among my people; they take over the goods of others. Like fowlers they set a trap; they catch human beings.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Criminals are found among my people; they set traps to catch people, like hunters lying in wait.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
‘For wicked men are found among My people, They watch like fowlers who lie in wait; They set a trap, They catch men.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
For criminals lurk among my people; like fowlers they set traps, but it is human beings they catch.
New American Standard Bible   
For wicked people are found among My people, They watch like fowlers lying in wait; They set a trap, They catch people.
The Expanded Bible   
There ·are wicked men [L wicked are found] among my people. Like ·those who make nets for catching birds [fowlers], they set their traps to catch people.
Tree of Life Version   
For among My people are wicked men, watching like bait-layers lying in wait. They set a trap—they catch men.
Revised Standard Version   
For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
New International Reader's Version   
“Jeremiah, some of my people are evil. They hide and wait just as people hide to catch birds. They set traps for people.
BRG Bible   
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Complete Jewish Bible   
“For among my people there are wicked men, who, like fowlers, lie in wait and set traps to catch their fellow human beings.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
For scoundrels are found among my people; they take over the goods of others. Like fowlers they set a trap; they catch human beings.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
For among Ami are found resha’im; they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a mashkhit (trap), they catch anashim.
Names of God Bible   
“Wicked people are found among my people. They lie in ambush like bird catchers. They set traps and catch people.
Modern English Version   
For among My people are found wicked men. They lie in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
Easy-to-Read Version   
There are evil men among my people. They are like men who make nets for catching birds. They set their traps, but they catch people instead of birds.
International Children’s Bible   
There are wicked men among my people. They are like men who make nets for catching birds. But they set their traps to catch men instead of birds.
Lexham English Bible   
For wicked people are found among my people, they lie in wait like the hiding of fowlers, they set up a trap, they catch humans.
New International Version - UK   
‘Among my people are the wicked who lie in wait like men who snare birds and like those who set traps to catch people.