Jeremiah 5:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

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

Cross References

Genesis 39:9

So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

Job 31:9

If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

Exodus 20:14

Do not be false to the married relation.

Exodus 20:17

Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.

Proverbs 6:29

So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.

Jeremiah 29:23

Because they have done shame in Israel, and have taken their neighbours' wives, and in my name have said false words, which I did not give them orders to say; and I myself am the witness, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:11

Because you are glad, because you are lifted up with pride, you wasters of my heritage, because you are playing like a young cow put out to grass, and you make a noise like strong horses;

Jeremiah 9:2

If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

Ezekiel 22:11

And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

Deuteronomy 5:18

Do not be false to the married relation.

Deuteronomy 5:21

Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.