Jeremiah 5:8
World English Bible (WEB)
They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
In context
6 Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.
7 “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.
8 They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
10 “Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not the LORD’s.
Jeremiah 5:8 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
- KJV King James Version
- They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
- ASV American Standard Version
- they were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Fed horses — they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.
- DBY Darby Translation
- [As] well fed horses, they roam about, every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.
- WBS Webster Bible
- They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.