Jeremiah 5:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ They were well-fed lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ They were like fed stallions roaming at large; each one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

Common English Bible

⁸ They are lusty stallions roving about, snorting for another’s wife.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ They have become like wild horses in heat; each one was neighing after his neighbor's wife.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

Jeremiah 5:8 Cross References

Genesis 39:9

He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”

Job 31:9

“If my heart has been enticed by a woman and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

Exodus 20:14

“You shall not commit adultery.

Exodus 20:17

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female slave, ox, donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Proverbs 6:29

So is he who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your shameless prostitutions on the hills of the countryside. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course has been evil, and their might is not right.

Jeremiah 29:23

because they have perpetrated outrage in Israel and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them; I am the one who knows and bears witness, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:11

Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass and neigh like stallions,

Jeremiah 9:2

O that I had in the desert a traveler’s lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

Ezekiel 22:11

One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you defiles his sister, his father’s daughter.

Deuteronomy 5:18

“ ‘Neither shall you commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 5:21

“ ‘Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife. “ ‘Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’