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? ’
Jeremiah 5:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They are well-fed, eager stallions, each neighing after someone else’s wife. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They were like fed stallions roaming at large; each one neighed after his neighbor's wife. American Standard Version (1901) they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife. Common English Bible They are lusty stallions roving about, snorting for another’s wife. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. |
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 my heart has gone astray over a woman or I have lurked at my neighbour’s door,
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.
So it is with the one who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
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?
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,
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.
Because you rejoice, because you celebrate – you who plundered my inheritance – because you frolic like a young cow treading grain and neigh like stallions,
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.
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.
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.