Proverbs 2:17

who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.

Jeremiah 3:4

Even now you say to me, 'You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.

Proverbs 5:18

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife --

Ezekiel 16:8

"'Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

Ezekiel 16:59-60

"'For this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.

Malachi 2:14-16

Yet you ask, "Why?" The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

Bible References

The guide

Proverbs 5:18
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife --
Jeremiah 3:4
Even now you say to me, 'You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.

Forgetteth

Ezekiel 16:8
"'Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.
Malachi 2:14
Yet you ask, "Why?" The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.

General references

Exodus 20:14
"You shall not commit adultery.
Leviticus 15:20
Anything she lies on during her menstruation will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.
Numbers 5:12
"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'If any man's wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,

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