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Jeremiah 5:8
Jeremiah 5:8 is verse 8 of Jeremiah chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
King James Version
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
World English Bible
They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
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Jeremiah 5:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.
7 “Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
8 They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
9 Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
10 Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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?”
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.
2 Samuel 11:3So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
2 Samuel 11:4Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
Job 31:9If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
Matthew 5:27You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’
Matthew 5:28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.