Jeremías 5:8

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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 Entonces ahora un león de la selva los atacará;
un lobo del desierto se les echará encima.
Un leopardo acechará cerca de sus ciudades,
y hará trizas a quien se atreva a salir.
Pues grande es la rebelión de ellos
y muchos son sus pecados.

7 «¿Cómo puedo perdonarte?
Pues aun tus hijos se han alejado de mí.
¡Ellos juraron por dioses que no son dioses en absoluto!
Alimenté a mi pueblo hasta que estuvo satisfecho;
pero su manera de darme las gracias fue cometer adulterio
y hacer fila en los prostíbulos.

8 Son vigorosos sementales, bien alimentados,
cada uno relinchando por la mujer de su prójimo.

9 ¿No habría de castigarlos por esto? —dice el Señor
—.
¿No habría de vengarme contra semejante nación?

10 »Vayan por las hileras de los viñedos y destruyan las vides
pero dejen algunas con vida.
Arranquen los sarmientos de las vides,
porque esta gente no pertenece al Señor
.