Jeremiah 2:2 BSB
Old Testament
“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Jeremiah 2:25 BSB
Old Testament
You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
Jeremiah 2:33 BSB
Old Testament
How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.
Jeremiah 3:1 BSB
Old Testament
“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers— and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 3:2 BSB
Old Testament
“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
Jeremiah 4:30 BSB
Old Testament
And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
Jeremiah 5:31 BSB
Old Testament
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
Jeremiah 8:2 BSB
Old Testament
They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.
Jeremiah 11:15 BSB
Old Testament
What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom, so that you can rejoice?
Jeremiah 12:7 BSB
Old Testament
I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.
Jeremiah 14:10 BSB
Old Testament
This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their guilt and call their sins to account.”
Jeremiah 22:20 BSB
Old Testament
Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.
Jeremiah 22:22 BSB
Old Testament
The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.
Jeremiah 30:14 BSB
Old Testament
All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.
Jeremiah 31:3 BSB
Old Testament
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
Lamentations 1:2 BSB
Old Testament
She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
Lamentations 1:19 BSB
Old Testament
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
Ezekiel 16:8 BSB
Old Testament
Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 16:33 BSB
Old Testament
Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.
Ezekiel 16:36 BSB
Old Testament
This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,
Ezekiel 16:37 BSB
Old Testament
therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.
Ezekiel 16:39 BSB
Old Testament
Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:41 BSB
Old Testament
Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.
Ezekiel 23:5 BSB
Old Testament
Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
Ezekiel 23:9 BSB
Old Testament
Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.