Jeremiah 5:8 “They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s…”

Jeremiah 5:8

They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

World English Bible

They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

American Standard Version

they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

Geneva Bible 1599

They rose vp in the morning like fed horses: for euery man neyed after his neighbours wife.

Darby Translation

[As] well fed horses, they roam about, every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.

Young's Literal Translation

Fed horses — they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.

Bible in Basic English

They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.

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Cross references

“every one”

Jeremiah 13:27 Deuteronomy 5:18 2 Samuel 11:2–4 Genesis 39:9 Exodus 20:14 Exodus 20:17

Jeremiah 13:27 · BSB

Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields— I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”

Deuteronomy 5:18 · BSB

You shall not commit adultery.

2 Samuel 11:2–4 · BSB

One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

Genesis 39:9 · BSB

No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

Exodus 20:14 · BSB

You shall not commit adultery.

Exodus 20:17 · BSB

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Also

Ezekiel 22:11 Jeremiah 29:23

Ezekiel 22:11 · BSB

One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

Jeremiah 29:23 · BSB

For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.

9Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

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