Jeremiah 5:8
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
Jeremiah 5:8 in other translations
| BSB | They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | Fed horses--they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh. |
| DARBY | As well fed horses, they roam about, every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife. |
| BBE | They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife. |
| Webster | They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. |
What does Jeremiah 5:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 5:1-9
The Jews' profession of religion was hypocritical. (Jr 5:1-9) The cruel proceedings of their enemies. (Jr 5:10-18) Their apostacy and idolatry. (Jr 5:19-31) Verses 1-9 None could be found who behaved as upright and godly men. But the Lord saw the true character of the people through all their disguises. The poor were ignorant, and therefore they were wicked. What can be expected but works of darkness, from people…
Jeremiah 5:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 5:8
- Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
- 2 Samuel 11:2-4
And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath–sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
- Ezekiel 22:11
And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
- Deuteronomy 5:18
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
- Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- Exodus 20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
- Genesis 39:9
There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
- Matthew 5:27-28
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
- Job 31:9
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
- Deuteronomy 5:21
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
- Jeremiah 29:23
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the Lord.
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Context
- Jeremiah 5:7
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
- Jeremiah 5:8
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
- Jeremiah 5:9
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 5:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Como caballos bien hartos fueron á la mañana, cada cual relinchaba á la mujer de su prójimo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Chevaux bien nourris, ils courent çà et là, chacun hennit après la femme de son prochain. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wie wohlgenährte Pferde schweifen sie umher; sie wiehern ein jeder nach seines Nächsten Weibe. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Equi amatores et emissarii facti sunt: unusquisque ad uxorem proximi sui hinniebat. |