As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.cage. or, coop. This is, without doubt, a reference to a decoy or trap-cage, as Dr. Blayney renders; in which fowlers place several tame birds, to decoy the others into the snare prepared for them.
Re 18:2
so are. Pr 1:11-13 Ho 12:7,8 Am 8:4-6 Mic 1:12 6:10,11 Hab 2:9-11

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