Jeremiah 5:8

New American Bible - revised edition

They are lustful stallions, each neighs after the other’s wife.

Cross References

Genesis 39:9

He has no more authority in this house than I do. He has withheld from me nothing but you, since you are his wife. How, then, could I do this great wrong and sin against God?”

Job 31:9

If my heart has been enticed toward 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, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. Moses Accepted as Mediator.

Proverbs 6:29

So with him who sleeps with another’s wife— none who touches her shall go unpunished.

Jeremiah 13:27

Your adulteries, your neighings, your shameless prostitutions: On the hills, in the fields I see your detestable crimes. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are clean?

Jeremiah 23:10

The land is filled with adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, the pastures of the wilderness are withered. Theirs is an evil course, theirs is unjust power.

Jeremiah 29:23

because they have committed an outrage in Israel, committing adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and alleging in my name things I did not command. I know, I am witness—oracle of the Lord. The False Prophet Shemaiah.

Jeremiah 50:11

Yes, rejoice and exult, you that plunder my heritage; Frisk like calves on the grass, neigh like stallions!

Jeremiah 9:2

They ready their tongues like a drawn bow; with lying, and not with truth, they are powerful in the land. They go from evil to evil, and me they do not know—oracle of the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:11

There are those in you who do abominable things with their neighbors’ wives, men who defile their daughters-in-law by incest, men who coerce their sisters to intercourse, the daughters of their own fathers.

Deuteronomy 5:18

You shall not commit adultery.

Deuteronomy 5:21

You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not desire your neighbor’s house or field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. Moses as Mediator.