Jeremiah 5:8

Jeremiah chapter 5 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.

Context

v.7How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots’ houses;

v.8This passage

v.9Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 5:21

    Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor’s wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor’s house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is thy neighbor’s.

  • Exodus 20:17

    Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.

  • Ezekiel 22:11

    And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

  • 2 Samuel 11:2

    And it came to pass at eventide, 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 bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

  • Genesis 39:9

    he is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

  • Deuteronomy 5:18

    Neither shalt thou commit adultery.