Jeremiah 5:8

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They were like well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife.

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  • Jer 13:27 : 27 Your adulteries, your lustful neighings, your wicked acts of prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable behavior. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How much longer will it be before you are made clean?
  • Ezek 22:11 : 11 One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
  • Matt 5:27-28 : 27 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
  • Jer 29:23 : 23 For they have done outrageous things in Israel, committing adultery with their neighbors' wives and speaking lies in my name, things I did not command them to do. I am the one who knows and the one who witnesses this, declares the LORD.
  • Gen 39:9 : 9 "No one in this house is greater than I am. He has not withheld anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?"
  • Exod 20:14 : 14 You shall not commit adultery.
  • Exod 20:17 : 17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
  • Deut 5:18 : 18 You shall not commit adultery.
  • Deut 5:21 : 21 You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-4 : 2 One evening, David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful. 3 David sent someone to inquire about the woman, and it was reported to him, 'Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?' 4 So David sent messengers, took her, and she came to him. He slept with her while she was purifying herself from her uncleanness. Then she returned to her house.
  • Job 31:9 : 9 If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor's door,

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    9 Should I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord. Should I not take vengeance on a nation like this?

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    6 I have listened and heard, but they do not speak what is right. No one repents of their wickedness, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turns to their own course, like a horse charging into battle.

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    8 Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than evening wolves. Their horsemen charge ahead; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour.

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    10 Therefore, I will give their wives to others and their fields to new owners. From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

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    12 She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and officials nearby—elegantly clothed, skilled horsemen, and all young and desirable men.

    13 I saw that she too was defiled; both had followed the same corrupt path.

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    5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out for their work diligently seeking prey; the steppe provides food for their children.

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    10 then may my wife grind grain for another, and may others kneel over her.

  • Hos 2:5
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    5 Otherwise, I will strip her naked, expose her as on the day of her birth. I will make her like a wilderness, turn her into a dry land, and let her die of thirst.

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    9 Because Israel's immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

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    27 Your adulteries, your lustful neighings, your wicked acts of prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable behavior. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How much longer will it be before you are made clean?

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    6 As they were fed, they were satisfied; as they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and so they forgot me.

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    15 He does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift his eyes to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

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    17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to her bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. After she was defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

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    2 The sound of whips, the clatter of wheels, galloping horses, and jolting chariots.

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    21 You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

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    2 They bend their tongues like a bow to shoot lies, not for truth do they grow strong in the land; they go from one evil to another, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.