New Revised Standard Version
Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich,

Contemporary English Version
You are evil, and you lie and cheat to make yourselves rich. You are powerful

New American Bible
Their houses are as full of treachery as a bird-cage is of birds; Therefore they grow powerful and rich,

Douay-Rheims Bible
As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.

As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.

cage.

Revelation 18:2 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird:

so are.

Proverbs 1:11-13 Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. . . .

Hosea 12:7,8 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression. . . .

Amos 8:4-6 And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place. . . .

Micah 1:12 And pass away, O thou that dwellest in the beautiful place, covered with thy shame: she went not forth that dwelleth in the confines: the house adjoining shall receive mourning from you, which stood by herself.

Micah 6:10,11 As yet there is a fire in the house of the wicked, the treasures of iniquity, and a scant measure full of wrath. . . .

Habakkuk 2:9-11 Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered out of the hand of evil. . . .