Jeremiah 5:7-8
English Standard Version Anglicised
7 (A)“How can I pardon you?
Your children have forsaken me
(B)and have sworn by those who are no gods.
(C)When I fed them to the full,
(D)they committed adultery
(E)and trooped to the houses of whores.
8 They were well-fed, lusty stallions,
(F)each neighing (G)for his neighbour's wife.
Jeremiah 5:7-8
King James Version
7 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.
8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
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Jeremiah 9:2
English Standard Version Anglicised
2 [a] Oh that I had in the desert
a travellers' lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all (A)adulterers,
a company of (B)treacherous men.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
Jeremiah 9:2
King James Version
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
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