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Jeremiah 5:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They are well-fed,  eager   stallions, each neighing  after someone else’s wife.

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Your adulteries and your lustful neighing, your depraved prostitution on the hills, in the fields – I have seen your abhorrent acts. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You are unclean – for how long yet?


One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbour’s wife;  another defiles his daughter-in-law with depravity; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.


because they have committed an outrage  in Israel by committing adultery with their neighbours’ wives and have spoken in my name a lie, which I did not command them. I am he who knows, and I am a witness.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.


If my heart has gone astray over a woman or I have lurked at my neighbour’s door,


Do not covet your neighbour’s wife or desire your neighbour’s house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.


Do not covet your neighbour’s house. Do not covet your neighbour’s wife, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.


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 this immense evil, and how could I sin against God? ’


If only I had a traveller’s lodging place in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a solemn assembly of treacherous people.


Because you rejoice, because you celebrate – you who plundered my inheritance – because you frolic like a young cow treading grain and neigh like stallions,


So it is with the one who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.


For the land is full of adulterers; the land mourns  because of the curse, and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up. Their way of life  has become evil, and their power is not rightly used,





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