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20 “Go up to Lebanon, and cry.
    Lift up your voice in Bashan,
and cry from Abarim;
    for all your lovers have been destroyed.
21 I spoke to you in your prosperity;
    but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
This has been your way from your youth,
    that you didn’t obey my voice.
22 The wind will feed all your shepherds,
    and your lovers will go into captivity.
Surely then you will be ashamed
    and confounded for all your wickedness.
23 Inhabitant of Lebanon,
    who makes your nest in the cedars,
how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you,
    the pain as of a woman in travail!

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20 Go up to Lebanon and cry out;
raise your voice in Bashan;
cry out from Abarim,(A)
for all your lovers[a] have been crushed.(B)
21 I spoke to you when you were secure.
You said, “I will not listen.”
This has been your way since youth;(C)
indeed, you have never listened to me.
22 The wind will take charge of[b] all your shepherds,
and your lovers will go into captivity.
Then you will be ashamed and humiliated(D)
because of all your evil.
23 You residents of Lebanon,
nestled among the cedars,
how you will groan[c] when pains come on you,
agony like a woman in labor.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 22:20 Or friends, or allies, also in v. 22
  2. 22:22 Lit will shepherd
  3. 22:23 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads will be pitied