Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Fed horses -- they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.
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.
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.
Interlinear
Tsahal
References
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 5:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
7 For this I am not propitious to thee, Thy sons have forsaken Me, And are satisfied by that which is not god, I satisfy them, and they commit adultery, And at the house of a harlot They gather themselves together. 8 Fed horses -- they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh. 9 For these do I not lay a charge? An affirmation of Jehovah, And on a nation such as this, Doth not My soul avenge itself?
Cross References
Jeremiah 13:27
Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, The wickedness of thy whoredom, on heights in a field, I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, Thou art not cleansed, after when is it again?
Ezekiel 22:11
And each with the wife of his neighbour hath done abomination, And each his daughter-in-law hath defiled through wickedness, And each his sister, his father's daughter, hath humbled in thee.
Genesis 39:9
none is greater in this house than I, and he hath not withheld from me anything, except thee, because thou art his wife; and how shall I do this great evil? -- then have I sinned against God.'
Exodus 20:14
'Thou dost not commit adultery.
Exodus 20:17
Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbour, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbour, or his man-servant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which is thy neighbour's.'
Deuteronomy 5:18
'Thou dost not commit adultery.
Deuteronomy 5:21
Thou dost not desire thy neighbour's wife; nor dost thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, and his man-servant, and his handmaid, his ox, and his ass, and anything which is thy neighbour's.
2 Samuel 11:2-4
and it cometh to pass, at evening-time, that David riseth from off his couch, and walketh up and down on the roof of the king's house, and seeth from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman is of very good appearance,
Job 31:9
If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,
Jeremiah 29:23
Because that they have done folly in Israel, and commit adultery with the wives of their neighbours, and speak a word in My name falsely that I have not commanded them, and I am He who knoweth and a witness -- an affirmation of Jehovah.
Matthew 5:27-28
'Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery;