Jeremiah 5:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 13:27 : 27 I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?
  • Ezek 22:11 : 11 And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.
  • Matt 5:27-28 : 27 You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife: 28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.
  • Jer 29:23 : 23 Because they have done shame in Israel, and have taken their neighbours' wives, and in my name have said false words, which I did not give them orders to say; and I myself am the witness, says the Lord.
  • Gen 39:9 : 9 So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?
  • Exod 20:14 : 14 Do not be false to the married relation.
  • Exod 20:17 : 17 Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.
  • Deut 5:18 : 18 Do not be false to the married relation.
  • Deut 5:21 : 21 Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-4 : 2 Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4 And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house.
  • Job 31:9 : 9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

Similar Verses (AI)

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    7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

  • Ezek 23:20
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    20 And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.

  • Jer 5:9
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    9 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • Jer 8:6
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    6 I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.

  • Hab 1:8
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    8 And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.

  • Ezek 16:32-33
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    32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

    33 They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.

  • Jer 8:10
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    10 So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.

  • Jer 3:1-2
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    1 They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.

    2 Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

  • Joel 2:4-5
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    4 Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses.

    5 Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.

  • Jer 11:15
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    15 About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

  • Hos 4:10
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    10 They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.

  • Ezek 23:12-13
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    12 She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired.

    13 And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.

  • Hos 5:4
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    4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

  • Job 24:5
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    5 Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

  • Job 31:10
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    10 Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

  • Hos 2:5
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    5 For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.

  • Isa 5:28
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    28 Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.

  • Ezek 22:11
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    11 And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

  • Jer 3:9
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    9 So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.

  • Ezek 23:5-6
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    5 And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,

    6 Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses.

  • Hos 4:18
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    18 Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.

  • Jer 13:27
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    27 I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?

  • Ezek 18:11
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    11 Who has taken flesh with the blood as food, and has had connection with his neighbour's wife,

  • Song 1:9
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    9 I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.

  • Isa 56:11
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    11 Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20 Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

  • Hos 13:6
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    6 When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.

  • Jer 8:16
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    16 The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.

  • Ezek 18:15
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    15 Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour's wife,

  • Ezek 16:26
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    26 And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7 Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

  • Ezek 23:43-44
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    43 Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.

    44 And they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman: so they went in to Oholibah, the loose woman.

  • Ezek 23:17
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    17 And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.

  • Hos 4:13
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    13 They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.

  • Nah 3:2
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    2 The noise of the whip, and the noise of thundering wheels; horses rushing and war-carriages jumping,

  • Deut 5:21
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    21 Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.

  • Nah 3:4
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    4 Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.

  • Jer 23:10
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    10 For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.

  • 2 Sam 12:11
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    11 The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.

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    4 They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.

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    7 They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.

  • Isa 2:7
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    7 And their land is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their stores; their land is full of horses, and there is no end to their carriages.

  • Jer 9:2
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    2 If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.