Jeremiah 5:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

there is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Job 31:9

If mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbour's door:

Exodus 20:14

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Exodus 20:17

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Proverbs 6:29

So he that goeth in to his nieghbour's wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, on the hills in the field. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up; and their course is evil, and their force is not right,

Jeremiah 29:23

because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I commanded them not; and I am he that knoweth, and am witness, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:11

Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder mine heritage, because ye are wanton as an heifer that treadeth out the corn, and neigh as strong horses;

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Ezekiel 22:11

And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

Deuteronomy 5:18

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 5:21

Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.