Jeremiah 5:8
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They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

Jeremiah 9:2
Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.

Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?

Jeremiah 29:23
Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I commanded them not: I am the judge and the witness, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:11
Because you rejoice, and speak great things, pillaging my inheritance: because you are spread abroad as calves upon the grass, and have bellowed as bulls.

Ezekiel 22:11
And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in law, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.

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They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

every one.

Jeremiah 13:27 I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?

Genesis 39:9 Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he hath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife; how then can I do this wicked thing, and sin against my God?

Exodus 20:14,17 Thou shalt not commit adultery. . . .

Deuteronomy 5:18,21 Neither shalt thou commit adultery. . . .

2 Samuel 11:2-4 In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after noon, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: And he saw from the roof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the woman was very beautiful. . . .

Job 31:9 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:

Matthew 5:27,28 You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery. . . .

Context
No One is Just
7How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house. 8They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.9Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?…
Lexicon
They are
הָי֑וּ (hā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

well-fed,
מְיֻזָּנִ֖ים (mə·yuz·zā·nîm)
Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2109: To be plump, to nourish

lusty
מַשְׁכִּ֣ים (maš·kîm)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7904: Perhaps to roam

stallions,
סוּסִ֥ים (sū·sîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5483: A swallow, swift (type of bird)

each
אִ֛ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

neighing
יִצְהָֽלוּ׃ (yiṣ·hā·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6670: To gleam, be cheerful, to sound clear

after
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

his neighbor’s
רֵעֵ֖הוּ (rê·‘ê·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7453: Friend, companion, fellow

wife.
אֵ֥שֶׁת (’ê·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female


Additional Translations
They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

They were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

They became as wanton horses: they neighed each one after his neighbour's wife.

[As] well fed horses, they roam about, every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.

They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.

Fed horses -- they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.
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