Parallel Verses
King James Version
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
New American Standard Bible
Each one neighing after his
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.
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 pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. 8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. 9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Cross References
Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?
Ezekiel 22:11
And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
Genesis 39:9
There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Exodus 20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Deuteronomy 5:18
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Deuteronomy 5:21
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
2 Samuel 11:2-4
And it came to pass in an eveningtide, 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 washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
Job 31:9
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
Jeremiah 29:23
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
Matthew 5:27-28
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: