The Instruction of Ankhsheshonq
If a crocodile loves a donkey it puts on a wig. One uses a horse to go after a ... ; one does not take a donkey to attain it. Man is even more eager to copulate than a donkey; his purse is what restrains him. One gives bread to the inspector for inspecting; if he does not inspect one cuts it off. Yesterday's drunkenness does not quench today's thirst.
Jeremiah 5:8
7 The Lord asked, “How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes. 8 They are like lusty, well-fed stallions. Each of them lusts after his neighbor’s wife. 9 I will surely punish them for doing such things!” says the Lord.“I will surely bring retribution on such a nation as this!”
Notes and References
"... Egypt’s horses were prized (Deuteronomy 17:16; 1 Kings 10:28), and equines and donkeys were thought as lascivious (compare Jeremiah 5:8, Egyptian parallel Instruction of Khasheshonqi 24). Oswald Loretz interpreted Ezekiel 23:20 in light of a Sumerian proverb: “One does not marry a three-year-old female like a donkey.” The proverb does not refer to the low status of donkeys but to their intensive sexual activity. It would imply a reference to an ancient Near Eastern literary tradition of wisdom sayings. Again, some of these sexual details can be understood in the light of comparative texts related to Ištar or her cult. Ištar’s hypersexuality is expressed through her copulating with horses. A text states about her, “After you have bedded down with horses”98 while another one refers to Inanna/Ištar’s sexual activity, “Like holy Inanna, you make love to horses” ..."
Bodi, Daniel "When YHWH's Wife, Jerusalem, Became a Strange Woman: Inversion of Values in Ezekiel 16 in Light of Ištar Cult" in Berlejung, Angelika, and Marianne Grohmann (eds.) Foreign Women - Women in Foreign Lands: Studies on Foreignness and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East in the First Millennium BCE (pp. 77-108) Mohr Siebeck, 2019