Jeremiah 5:8
Good News Translation
They were like well-fed stallions wild with desire, each lusting for his neighbor's wife.

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

Contemporary English Version
You are no better than animals, and you always want sex with someone else's wife.

New American Bible
They are lustful stallions, each neighs after the other’s wife.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

every one.

Jeremiah 13:27 I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?

Genesis 39:9 Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he hath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife; how then can I do this wicked thing, and sin against my God?

Exodus 20:14,17 Thou shalt not commit adultery. . . .

Deuteronomy 5:18,21 Neither shalt thou commit adultery. . . .

2 Samuel 11:2-4 In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after noon, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: And he saw from the roof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the woman was very beautiful. . . .

Job 31:9 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:

Matthew 5:27,28 You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery. . . .

Context
No One is Just
7How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house. 8They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.9Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?…
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:2
Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.

Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?

Jeremiah 29:23
Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I commanded them not: I am the judge and the witness, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:11
Because you rejoice, and speak great things, pillaging my inheritance: because you are spread abroad as calves upon the grass, and have bellowed as bulls.

Ezekiel 22:11
And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in law, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.

Jeremiah 5:7
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