World English Bible
Jeremiah 5:8
“They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 5
Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.
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.
They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
Shouldn't I punish them for these things?" says Yahweh; "and shouldn't my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end. Take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.
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