Jeremiah 5:8
Jeremiah chapter 5 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901they 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.