lovers

Behold therefore, I will gather all thy louers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loued, with all them that thou hast hated: I will euen gather them round about against thee, and will discouer thy nakednesse vnto them, that they may see all thy nakednesse.

And Aholah played the harlot, when she was mine, & she doted on her louers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

Wherefore I haue deliuered her into the hand of her louers, into the hand of the Assyrians, vpon whom she doted.

1611 marginal note2.Kings 17.18.

¶ Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the LORD God, Behold, I will raise vp thy louers against thee, from whom thy minde is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on euery side;

For their mother hath played the harlot: shee that conceiued them hath done shamefully: for shee sayd, I will goe after my louers, that giue me my bread and my water, my wooll and my flaxe, mine oyle, and my drinke.

1611 marginal noteHeb. drinks

And she shall follow after her louers, but she shall not ouertake them, and she shall seeke them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will goe and returne to my first husband, for then was it better with me then now.

And now will I discouer her lewdnesse in the sight of her louers, and none shall deliuer her out of mine hand.

1611 marginal noteHeb. folly or villanie.

And I will destroy her vines and her figge trees, whereof she hath said; These are my rewards that my louers haue giuen me: and I will make them a forrest, and the beasts of the field shall eate them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. make desolate.

And I will visite vpon her the daies of Baalim, wherein she burnt incense to them, and she decked her selfe with her eare-rings, and her Iewels, and she went after her louers, and forgate me, saith the LORD.

For they are gone vp to Assyria, a wilde Asse alone by himselfe; Ephraim hath hired louers.

1611 marginal noteHeb. loues.