Jeremiah 5:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ “They were like well-fed horses, every one neighed after his neighbour’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.

Jeremiah 5:8 Cross References

Genesis 39:9

“No one is greater in this house than I, and he has not withheld whatever from me but you, because you are his wife. And how shall I do this great evil and sin against Elohim?”

Job 31:9

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbour’s door,

Exodus 20:14

“You do not commit adultery.

Exodus 20:17

“You do not covet your neighbour’s house, you do not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, or whatever belongs to your neighbour.”

Proverbs 6:29

So is he who goes in to his neighbour’s wife; None who touches her goes unpunished.

Jeremiah 13:27

your adulteries and your neighings, the wickedness of your whoring! I have seen your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Yerushalayim! How long before you would be made clean?”

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is filled with adulterers; for the land mourns because of a curse. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right.

Jeremiah 29:23

because they have done wickedness in Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 50:11

“Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, you who plunder My inheritance, because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, and you neigh like stallions,

Jeremiah 9:2

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

Ezekiel 22:11

“And the one has done abomination with his neighbour’s wife. And another has wickedly defiled his daughter-in-law. And another within you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

Deuteronomy 5:18

‘You do not commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 5:21

‘You do not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor do you desire your neighbour’s house, his field, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, his ox, nor his donkey, or whatever belongs to your neighbour.’