Jeremiah 5:8 They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man's wife.

◄ Jeremiah 5:8 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man's wife.

English Standard Version
They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.

New American Standard Bible
"They were well-fed lusty horses, Each one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

King James Bible
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They are well-fed, eager stallions, each neighing after someone else's wife.

International Standard Version
They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

American Standard Version
They were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They are become as amorous horses and stallions, every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

Darby Bible Translation
As well fed horses, they roam about, every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.

Young's Literal Translation
Fed horses -- they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your prostitution, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! will you not be made clean? when shall it once be?

Jeremiah 29:23
Because they have committed villainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:11
Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, O you destroyers of my heritage, because you are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

Ezekiel 22:11
And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:1-9 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 that know nothing of God and religion? There are God's poor, who, notwithstanding poverty, know the way of the Lord, walk in it, and do their duty; but these were willingly ignorant, and their ignorance would not be their excuse. The rich were insolent and haughty, and the abuse of God's favours made their sin worse.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. in the morning—(Isa 5:11). "Rising early in the morning" is a phrase for unceasing eagerness in any pursuit; such was the Jews' avidity after idol-worship. Maurer translates from a different Hebrew root, "continually wander to and fro," inflamed with lust (Jer 2:23). But English Version is simpler (compare Jer 13:27; Eze 22:11).