Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
New American Standard Bible
Each one neighing after his
King James Version
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
Holman Bible
each neighing
International Standard Version
They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each one neighing after his neighbor's wife.
A Conservative Version
They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
American Standard Version
They were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.
Amplified
“They were like well-fed, lusty stallions,
Each one neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
Darby Translation
As well fed horses, they roam about, every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.
Julia Smith Translation
They were horses seducing to fornication: roaming about, they will neigh, a man for the wife of his neighbor.
King James 2000
They were as fed horses in the morning: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They were well-fed lusty horses, they neighed each to the wife of his neighbor.
Modern King James verseion
They were like lusty, well-fed stallions in the morning; every one neighing after his neighbor's wife.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
In the desire of uncleanly lust they are become like the stoned horse: every man neigheth at his neighbour's wife.
NET Bible
They are like lusty, well-fed stallions. Each of them lusts after his neighbor's wife.
New Heart English Bible
They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
The Emphasized Bible
Lusty, well-fed horses, had they become, Every man unto his neighbours wife, would neigh!
Webster
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.
World English Bible
They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
Youngs Literal Translation
Fed horses -- they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.
Interlinear
Tsahal
References
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 5:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women. 8 They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife. 9 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
Cross References
Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?
Ezekiel 22:11
And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.
Genesis 39:9
So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?
Exodus 20:14
Do not be false to the married relation.
Exodus 20:17
Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.
Deuteronomy 5:18
Do not be false to the married relation.
Deuteronomy 5:21
Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.
2 Samuel 11:2-4
Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
Job 31:9
If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;
Jeremiah 29:23
Because they have done shame in Israel, and have taken their neighbours' wives, and in my name have said false words, which I did not give them orders to say; and I myself am the witness, says the Lord.
Matthew 5:27-28
You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife: