Yēlìmǐshū 5:8

8 Tāmen xiàng wèi bǎo de mǎ dàochù luàn paó , ge xiàng tā línshè de qī fā sī shēng .

Yēlìmǐshū 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.

Yēlìmǐshū 5:8 In-Context

6 Yīncǐ , lín zhōng de shīzi bì haì sǐ tāmen . wǎnshang ( huò zuò yĕdì ) de chái láng bì mièjué tāmen . bào zǐ yào zaì chéng waì kuī sì tāmen . fán chū chéng de bì beì sī suì . yīnwei tāmende zuì guo jí duō , bēi dào de shì yĕ jiā zēng le .

7 Wǒ zĕn néng shèmiǎn nǐ ne . nǐde érnǚ lí qì wǒ , yòu zhǐ zhe nà bú shì shén de qǐshì . wǒ shǐ tāmen bǎozú , tāmen jiù xíng jiānyín , chéngqún dì jùjí zaì chāngjì jiā lǐ .

8 Tāmen xiàng wèi bǎo de mǎ dàochù luàn paó , ge xiàng tā línshè de qī fā sī shēng .

9 Yēhéhuá shuō , wǒ qǐbù yīn zhèxie shì tǎo zuì ne . qǐbù bàofù zhèyàng de guó mín ne .

10 Nǐmen yào shǎng tā pútaóyuán de qiáng shīxíng huǐhuaì , dàn bùkĕ huǐhuaì jìng jǐn , zhǐ kĕ chúdiào tāde zhīzǐ , yīnwei bù shǔ Yēhéhuá .