Jeremiah 5:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.”
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“They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.”
King James Version · Public Domain“they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Fed horses--they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 5:8 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- 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 5:18You shall not commit adultery.
- 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.”
- 2 Samuel 11:2One 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.
- Job 31:9If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
- Proverbs 6:29So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
- 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?”
- Jeremiah 23:10For the land is full of adulterers— because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up— their course is evil and their power is misused.
- 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 the LORD.”
- 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.
- Matthew 5:27You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’
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