Jer 4:30, 22:22, 25:9, 17-27, Lam 1:2, 19, Eze 23:9, 22 | ESV | STEP | And you, O desolate one , what do you mean that you dress in scarlet , that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold , that you enlarge your eyes with paint ? In vain you beautify yourself . Your lovers despise you; they seek your life .

30 And you, O desolate one,
what do you mean that you dress in scarlet,
^athat you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold,
^bthat you enlarge your eyes with paint?
In vain you beautify yourself.
^cYour lovers despise you;
they seek your life.

Jeremiah 22:22

22 ^dThe wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,
and ^eyour lovers shall go into captivity;
^fthen you will be ashamed and confounded
because of all your evil.

Jeremiah 25:9

9 ^gbehold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^hmy servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, ⁱand make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

Jeremiah 25:17-27

17 So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, ^jand made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: 18 ^kJerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, ^lto make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day; 19 ^mPharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people, 20 and ⁿall the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of ^othe land of Uz and all the kings of ^pthe land of the Philistines ( ^qAshkelon, ^rGaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ^sAshdod); 21 ^tEdom, ^uMoab, and the sons of ^vAmmon; 22 all the kings of ^wTyre, all the kings of ^xSidon, and the kings of the coastland across ^ythe sea; 23 ^zDedan, ^aaTema, ^abBuz, and all who cut ^acthe corners of their hair; 24 all the ^adkings of Arabia and all the kings of ^aethe mixed tribes who dwell in the desert; 25 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^afElam, and all the kings of ^agMedia; 26 all the kings of ^ahthe north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of ^aiBabylon ^{▼▼Hebrew Sheshach, a code name for Babylon} shall drink.

27 “Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^akDrink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of ^althe sword that I am sending among you.’

Lamentations 1:2

2 ^amShe weeps bitterly in the night,
with tears on her cheeks;
^anamong all her lovers
she has ^aonone to comfort her;
^apall her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:19

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

Ezekiel 23:9

9 Therefore ^asI delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.

Ezekiel 23:22

22 Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers ^atfrom whom you turned in disgust, ^auand I will bring them against you from every side: