They were as fed horses in the morning. — Better, As fed stallion horses they rove about. The animal passion is taken, as in Ezekiel 23:20, (1) as answering to the same passion in man; (2) as symbolical of the lust for idolatrous ritual. (Comp. Jeremiah 2:24.)
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Jeremiah 5:8
8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.