Jeremías 5:8

8 Son como caballos bien cebados y fogosos;todos relinchan por la mujer ajena.

Jeremías 5:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 5:8

They were as fed horses in the morning
Adulterers are compared to horses, because they are very salacious and lustful creatures; wherefore the Septuagint renders the word: "horses are become mad after the females"; or, "as horses mad after the females are they become"; and especially to such as are well kept and are fat, and who, having much food given them in the night, and being full in the morning, go forth neighing, as Kimchi observes; and are the more salacious in the morning, by being so well fed all night, as those persons were, as is expressed in the preceding verse; though some render the word (Mykvm) , translated "in the morning", (for which sense of it see ( Hosea 6:4 ) ) "drawing out" ^F21; that is, the genital member, as lascivious horses do. The word is difficult of interpretation. The Targum calls them field or wood horses; horses that run in fields and woods, and are very vicious and wanton:, everyone neighed after his neighbour's wife;
coveted and lusted after her, signified his lustful desires, and sought an opportunity to defile her. Neighing is a sign of lust, and keeps up the metaphor of the horse.

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 (elkontev) , "trahentes", Aquila, Symmachus & Theodotion in Bootius, l. 3. c. 5. sect. 3. Aben Ezra and Abendana interpret it of horses that come from Meshec; see Psal. cxx. 5. which were the strongest and most lascivious.

Jeremías 5:8 In-Context

6 Por eso los herirá el león de la selvay los despedazará el lobo del desierto;frente a sus ciudades está el leopardo al acecho,y todo el que salga de ellas será despedazado,pues son muchas sus rebelionesy numerosas sus infidelidades.

7 «¿Por qué habré de perdonarte?Tus hijos me han abandonado,han jurado por los que no son dioses.Cuando suplí sus necesidades,ellos cometieron adulterioy en tropel se volcaron a los prostíbulos.

8 Son como caballos bien cebados y fogosos;todos relinchan por la mujer ajena.

9 ¿Y no los he de castigar por esto?—afirma el SEÑOR—.¿Acaso no he de vengarme de semejante nación?

10 »Suban por los surcos de esta viñay arrásenla, pero no acaben con ella.Arránquenle sus sarmientos,porque no son del SEÑOR.