Jeremiah 30:14
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
Cross-reference
In Jeremiah 30:15, the same divine logic continues: the incurable wound is directly tied to Israel's great guilt and many sins, reinforcing the cause of judgment.
Jeremiah 2:36 warns Israel will be ashamed of Egypt — the same lovers who now forget her demonstrate the futility of foreign alliances.
In Jeremiah 5:6, the same pattern of judgment for great rebellion is depicted with wild beasts, echoing the cause and effect of severe punishment for multiplied sins.
Jeremiah 22:20 declares 'all thy lovers are destroyed' — showing the ultimate fate of the allies who forgot Israel here.
Jeremiah 22:22 says lovers will go into captivity — expanding on their forgetting by describing their punishment.
Jeremiah 6:23 describes the cruel, merciless enemy from the north — the same foe that strikes here as punishment.
Jeremiah 14:17 laments a grievous wound on God's people — the same wound inflicted here because of their sins.
Job 13:24 asks 'Why do you consider me your enemy?' — mirroring Israel's experience of God acting as a hostile adversary.
Hosea 5:14 says God will be like a lion tearing Ephraim and Judah — a parallel metaphor of God as a destructive enemy with no rescuer.
Hosea 2:10-16 describes God exposing Israel's lewdness to her lovers and stripping her blessings — parallel to being struck as an enemy for sin.
Hosea 2:5 uses the same 'lovers' metaphor for Israel chasing Baals — showing unfaithfulness that leads to divine judgment.
In Ezekiel 23:22, God stirs up the 'lovers' against Oholibah — same metaphor of foreign allies turned enemies to punish unfaithfulness.
In Ezekiel 9:8-10, God declares He will not spare because sin is exceedingly great, mirroring the main verse's reason for punishment: great guilt and no mercy.
Lamentations 2:5 says 'The Lord is like an enemy' — explicitly echoes the image of God destroying Israel as an adversary.
Lamentations 1:19 says lovers deceived Jerusalem — intensifying the abandonment by adding deceit to forgetfulness.
Lamentations 1:2 laments that Jerusalem's lovers give no comfort — an exact parallel to the forgotten lovers here.
In Psalm 90:8, God exposes all iniquities and secret sins, connecting to the 'great guilt and many sins' that are the reason for punishment in the main verse.
Job 30:21 says God 'turns on me ruthlessly' — the same divine cruelty described in Jeremiah as punishment for great guilt.
Job 19:11 states 'he counts me as his enemy' — directly parallel to God striking Israel like an enemy because of sin.
Job 16:9 says God 'tears me in his anger' — reflects the same portrayal of God as a savage enemy striking without mercy.
In Isaiah 23:16, the same 'forgotten prostitute' imagery is used for Tyre, directly echoing the lament that Israel's lovers have forgotten her.
Lamentations 1:5 states that the Lord brought grief because of many sins — the same reason here for the punishment.
In Isaiah 23:16, Tyre is called a forgotten prostitute, directly paralleling the image of Israel's lovers forgetting her, highlighting the theme of betrayal.
Lamentations 2:4 portrays God acting like an enemy against His people — the exact same metaphor used here.
Hosea 5:13 shows Israel's lovers (Assyria) unable to heal their wound — just as here all lovers have forgotten them.
In Job 6:15, Job compares his brothers to unreliable streams, echoing the theme of unfaithful allies who forget, just as Israel's lovers forgot her.
In Isaiah 28:21, God's judgment is described as His 'strange' work, paralleling the main verse's idea of God striking as an enemy—an unexpected role.
Revelation 17:16 shows the prostitute's lovers (kings) turning on her — a NT echo of God using former allies to judge unfaithfulness.
Obadiah 1:7 describes allies deceiving and overpowering — the same betrayal by lovers described here.
In Psalm 90:7, God's anger is described as consuming and terrifying, paralleling the experience of being struck by God as an enemy.