Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
They were horses seducing to fornication: roaming about, they will neigh, a man for the wife of his neighbor.
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.
Bible in Basic English
They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
Darby Translation
As well fed horses, they roam about, every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.
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 shall I forgive to thee for this? thy sons forsook me, and they will swear by not God; and I will satisfy them, and they will commit adultery, and they will crowd themselves together to the house of the harlot 8 They were horses seducing to fornication: roaming about, they will neigh, a man for the wife of his neighbor. 9 For these shall I not review? says Jehovah; and shalt not my soul be avenged upon a nation such as this?
Cross References
Jeremiah 13:27
Thine adulteries and thy neighings, the purpose of thy harlotry upon the hills, in the field, I saw thine abominations. Wo to thee, O Jerusalem thou wilt not be cleansed after me; how long yet?
Ezekiel 22:11
And a man did abomination with his neighbor's wife; and a man defiled his daughter-in-law in wickedness; and a man humbled his sister, his father's daughter, in thee.
Genesis 39:9
Nothing is great in this house above me: and he kept not back anything from me except thee, because thou his wife: and how shall I do this great evil and sin before God?
Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Exodus 20:17
Thou shalt not desire thy friend's house, thou shalt not desire thy friend's wife, and his servant and his maid and his ox and his ass and all which is to thy friend.
Deuteronomy 5:18
and thou shalt not commit adultery,
Deuteronomy 5:21
and thou shalt not desire thy friend's wife; and thou shalt not long for thy friend's house, his field, and his servant, and his maid, his ox and his ass, and all that is to thy friend.
2 Samuel 11:2-4
And it will be at the time of the evening, and David will rise from off his bed, and will go upon the roof of the king's house: and he will see from the roof a woman washing herself; and the woman good of aspect exceedingly.
Job 31:9
If my heart was seduced by woman, and I laid wait at the door of my neighbor;
Jeremiah 29:23
Because they did folly in Israel, and they will commit adultery with their neighbors' wives, and they will speak the word of a lie in my name, which I commanded them not; and I know, and a witness, says Jehovah.
Matthew 5:27-28
Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not commit adultery: