20 ¶ Go up to [a]Lebanon, and cry: shout in [b]Bashan, and cry by the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

21 I spake unto thee when thou wast in prosperity: but thou saidest, I will not hear, this hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou wouldest not obey my voice.

22 The wind shall feed all thy pastors, [c]and thy lovers shall go into captivity: and then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded of all thy wickedness.

23 Thou that dwellest in Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the [d]cedars, how beautiful shalt thou be when sorrows come upon thee, as the sorrow of a woman in travail?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:20 To call to the Assyrians for help.
  2. Jeremiah 22:20 For this was the way out of India to Assyria, whereby is meant that all help should fail: for the Chaldeans have subdued both them and the Egyptians.
  3. Jeremiah 22:22 Both thy governors and they that should help thee, shall vanish away as wind.
  4. Jeremiah 22:23 Thou that art built of the fair Cedar trees of Lebanon.

20 “Go up to Lebanon and cry out,(A)
    let your voice be heard in Bashan,(B)
cry out from Abarim,(C)
    for all your allies(D) are crushed.
21 I warned you when you felt secure,(E)
    but you said, ‘I will not listen!’
This has been your way from your youth;(F)
    you have not obeyed(G) me.
22 The wind(H) will drive all your shepherds(I) away,
    and your allies(J) will go into exile.
Then you will be ashamed and disgraced(K)
    because of all your wickedness.
23 You who live in ‘Lebanon,[a](L)
    who are nestled in cedar buildings,
how you will groan when pangs come upon you,
    pain(M) like that of a woman in labor!

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 22:23 That is, the palace in Jerusalem (see 1 Kings 7:2)