Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers - the Chaldeans and the Assyrians. The law of retribution is the more signally exemplified by God employing, as His instruments of judgment on Israel, those very nations whose alliance and idols Israel had so eagerly sought, besides giving her up to those who had been always her enemies. 'God will make him who leaves God for the world disgraced even in the eyes of the world, and, indeed, the more so the nearer he formerly stood to Himself' (Hengstenberg).
With all them that thou hast hated - the Edomites and Philistines; also Moab and Ammon especially (Deuteronomy 23:3).
I ... will discover thy nakedness - punishment in kind, as she had 'discovered her nakedness through whoredoms' (Ezekiel 16:36; the sin and its penalty corresponded. I will expose thee to public infamy (Isaiah 47:3; Jeremiah 13:26; Hosea 2:12; Nahum 3:5).