Jeremiah 5:8
“They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.”
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
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.
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.
Cross-References
“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.”
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
“When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.”
“If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;”
“But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.”