Bible Cross References
lovers
Jeremiah 2:36
You have cheapened yourself by turning to the gods of other nations. You will be disappointed by Egypt, just as you were by Assyria.
Jeremiah 4:30
Jerusalem, you are doomed! Why do you dress in scarlet? Why do you put on jewelry and paint your eyes? You are making yourself beautiful for nothing! Your lovers have rejected you and want to kill you.
Jeremiah 22:20
People of Jerusalem, go to Lebanon and shout, go to the land of Bashan and cry; call out from the mountains of Moab, because all your allies have been defeated.
Jeremiah 22:22
Your leaders will be blown away by the wind, your allies taken as prisoners of war, your city disgraced and put to shame because of all the evil you have done.
Jeremiah 38:22
In it I saw all the women left in Judah's royal palace being led out to the king of Babylonia's officers. Listen to what they were saying as they went: 'The king's best friends misled him, they overruled him. And now that his feet have sunk in the mud, his friends have left him.' "
Lamentations 1:2
All night long she cries; tears run down her cheeks. Of all her former friends, not one is left to comfort her. Her allies have betrayed her and are all against her now.
Lamentations 1:19
"I called to my allies, but they refused to help me. The priests and the leaders died in the city streets, Looking for food to keep themselves alive.
Ezekiel 23:9
So I handed her over to her Assyrian lovers whom she wanted so much.
Ezekiel 23:22
"Now then, Oholibah, this is what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to you. You are tired of those lovers, but I will make them angry with you and bring them to surround you.
Hosea 2:5
(SEE 2:4)
Hosea 2:10-16
10
I will strip her naked in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to save her from my power.
11
I will put an end to all her festivities---her annual and monthly festivals and her Sabbath celebrations---all her religious meetings.
12
I will destroy her grapevines and her fig trees, which she said her lovers gave her for serving them. I will turn her vineyards and orchards into a wilderness; wild animals will destroy them.
13
I will punish her for the times that she forgot me, when she burned incense to Baal and put on her jewelry to go chasing after her lovers. The LORD has spoken.
14
So I am going to take her into the desert again; there I will win her back with words of love.
15
I will give back to her the vineyards she had and make Trouble Valley a door of hope. She will respond to me there as she did when she was young, when she came from Egypt.
16
Then once again she will call me her husband---she will no longer call me her Baal.
Revelation 17:12-18
12
"The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet begun to rule, but who will be given authority to rule as kings for one hour with the beast.
13
These ten all have the same purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
14
They will fight against the Lamb; but the Lamb, together with his called, chosen, and faithful followers, will defeat them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings."
15
The angel also said to me, "The waters you saw, on which the prostitute sits, are nations, peoples, races, and languages.
16
The ten horns you saw and the beast will hate the prostitute; they will take away everything she has and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and destroy her with fire.
17
For God has placed in their hearts the will to carry out his purpose by acting together and giving to the beast their power to rule until God's words come true.
18
"The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth."
I
Job 13:24-28
24
Why do you avoid me? Why do you treat me like an enemy?
25
Are you trying to frighten me? I'm nothing but a leaf; you are attacking a piece of dry straw.
26
You bring bitter charges against me, even for what I did when I was young.
27
You bind chains on my feet; you watch every step I take, and even examine my footprints.
28
As a result, I crumble like rotten wood, like a moth-eaten coat.
Job 16:9
In anger God tears me limb from limb; he glares at me with hate.
Job 19:11
God is angry and rages against me; he treats me like his worst enemy.
Job 30:21
You are treating me cruelly; you persecute me with all your power.
Lamentations 2:5
Like an enemy, the Lord has destroyed Israel; He has left her forts and palaces in ruins. He has brought on the people of Judah unending sorrow.
Hosea 5:14
I will attack the people of Israel and Judah like a lion. I myself will tear them to pieces and then leave them. When I drag them off, no one will be able to save them.
because
Jeremiah 30:15
Complain no more about your injuries; there is no cure for you. I punished you like this because your sins are many and your wickedness is great.
Jeremiah 5:6
That is why lions from the forest will kill them; wolves from the desert will tear them to pieces, and leopards will prowl through their towns. If those people go out, they will be torn apart because their sins are numerous and time after time they have turned from God.
Psalm 90:7
We are destroyed by your anger; we are terrified by your fury.
Psalm 90:8
You place our sins before you, our secret sins where you can see them.
Ezekiel 9:8-10
8
While the killing was going on, I was there alone. I threw myself face downward on the ground and shouted, "Sovereign LORD, are you so angry with Jerusalem that you are going to kill everyone left in Israel?"
9
God answered, "The people of Israel and Judah are guilty of terrible sins. They have committed murder all over the land and have filled Jerusalem with crime. They say that I, the LORD, have abandoned their country and that I don't see them.
10
But I will not have pity on them; I will do to them what they have done to others."