Jeremiah 22:20-22

20 “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,
and lift up your voice in Bashan;
cry out from aAbarim,
for all byour lovers are destroyed.
21I spoke to you in your prosperity,
but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
cThis has been your way from dyour youth,
that you have not obeyed my voice.
22 eThe wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,
and fyour lovers shall go into captivity;
gthen you will be ashamed and confounded
because of all your evil.

Lamentations 1:2

2 hShe weeps bitterly in the night,
with tears on her cheeks;
iamong all her lovers
she has jnone to comfort her;
kall her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:19

19 “I called to lmy lovers,
but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
perished in the city,
while mthey sought food
to revive their strength.

Lamentations 4:17

17 nOur eyes failed, ever watching
ovainly for help;
in our watching we watched
for pa nation which could not save.

Ezekiel 16:36-41

36Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, qand because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, 37therefore, behold, rI will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and sall those you hated. tI will gather them against you from every side uand will uncover your nakedness to them, that vthey may see all your nakedness. 38 wAnd I will judge you xas women who commit adultery and yshed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. 39And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your zvaulted chamber and break down aayour lofty places. abThey shall strip you of your clothes and take acyour beautiful jewels and leave you adnaked and bare. 40 aeThey shall bring up a crowd against you, afand they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. 41 agAnd they shall ahburn your houses and aiexecute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. ajI will make you stop playing the whore, and akyou shall also give payment no more.

Ezekiel 23:9-10

9Therefore alI delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. 10 amThese uncovered her nakedness; anthey seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became aoa byword among women, apwhen judgment had been executed on her.

Ezekiel 23:22-24

22Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers aqfrom whom you turned in disgust, arand I will bring them against you from every side: 23the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, asPekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, atdesirable young men, augovernors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. 24And they shall come against you from the north
Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew word is unknown
with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. awThey shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and axI will commit the judgment to them, and aythey shall judge you according to their judgments.

Ezekiel 23:28-29

28For thus says the Lord God: azBehold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, bainto the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust, 29and bbthey shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor bcand leave you naked and bare, and bdthe nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring
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