Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
My priests
General references
Bible References
My priests
Lamentations 1:11
"Look, O Lord! Consider that I have become worthless!"
Lamentations 2:20
(Resh) Look, O Lord! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord's sanctuary?
Lamentations 4:7
(Zayin) Her consecrated ones were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies more ruddy than corals, their hair like lapis lazuli.
Lamentations 5:12
Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.
Jeremiah 14:15
I did not send those prophets, though they claim to be prophesying in my name. They may be saying, 'No war or famine will happen in this land.' But I, the Lord, say this about them: 'War and starvation will kill those prophets.'
Jeremiah 23:11
Moreover, the Lord says, "Both the prophets and priests are godless. I have even found them doing evil in my temple!
Jeremiah 27:13
There is no reason why you and your people should die in war or from starvation or disease! That's what the Lord says will happen to any nation that will not be subject to the king of Babylon.
General references
Ezekiel 16:37
therefore, take note: I am about to gather all your lovers whom you enjoyed, both all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around, and I will expose your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness.