Jeremiah 5:8

In 11 translations

BSB

They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

KJV

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

WEB

They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

ASV

they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

LSV

Fed horses—they have been early risers, || They each neigh to the wife of his neighbor.

YLT

Fed horses — they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.

DBY

[As] well fed horses, they roam about, every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.

DRC

They are become as amorous horses and stallions, every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

GNV

They rose vp in the morning like fed horses: for euery man neyed after his neighbours wife.

JPS

They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.

LXXE

They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbour's wife.

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Original-language editions

WLC

סוּסִ֥ים מְיֻזָּנִ֖ים מַשְׁכִּ֣ים הָי֑וּ אִ֛ישׁ אֶל־אֵ֥שֶׁת רֵעֵ֖הוּ יִצְהָֽלוּ׃

LXX-Br

Ἵπποι θηλυμανεῖς ἐγενήθησαν, ἕκαστος ἐπὶ τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ ἐχρεμέτιζον.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Jeremiah 13:27Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields— I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
• 2 Samuel 11:2–4One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman. So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This…
• Deuteronomy 5:18You shall not commit adultery.
• Ezekiel 22:11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
• Genesis 39:9No 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 such a great evil and sin against God?”
• Exodus 20:14You shall not commit adultery.
• Job 31:9If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
• Matthew 5:27–28You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
• Exodus 20:17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
• Deuteronomy 5:21You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
• Jeremiah 29:23For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares…

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