Jeremiah 22:20

Jeremiah 22:20 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
• New International Version (NIV)“Go up to Lebanon and cry out, let your voice be heard in Bashan, cry out from Abarim, for all your allies are crushed.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Go up to Lebanon, and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are destroyed.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Go up to Lebanon, and cry out, And lift up your voice in Bashan; Cry from Abarim, For all your lovers are destroyed.

Context of Jeremiah 22:20

18Therefore, this is what the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will not mourn for him, saying, “Woe, my brother!” or “Woe, my sister!” They will not mourn for him, saying, “Woe, lord! Woe, his majesty!” 19He will be buried like a donkey, dragged off and thrown outside Jerusalem’s gates. Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed. 21I spoke to you when you were secure. You said, “I will not listen.” This has been your way since youth; indeed, you have never listened to me. 22The wind will take charge of all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your evil.

Jeremiah 22:20 word by word

עֲלִ֤י הַלְּבָנוֹן֙ וּֽצְעָ֔קִי וּבַבָּשָׁ֖ן תְּנִ֣י קוֹלֵ֑ךְ וְצַֽעֲקִי֙ מֵֽעֲבָרִ֔ים כִּ֥י נִשְׁבְּר֖וּ כָּל־מְאַהֲבָֽיִךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Go upעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• to Lebanonלְבָנוֹןlebânôn · LebanonH3844
• and cryצָעַקtsâ‛aq · to cryH6817
• and lift upנָתַןnâthan · to give: cry outH5414
• thy voiceקוֹלqôl qôl · voiceH6963
• in Bashanבָּשָׁןbâshân · BashanH1316
• from the passagesעֵ֫בֶר‛êber · side: besideH5676
• for all thy loversאָהֵב'âhab 'âhêb · to love: loverH157
• are destroyedשָׁבַרshâbar · to breakH7665

Cross-references for Jeremiah 22:20

• Jeremiah 2:36How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be put to shame by Egypt just as you were put to shame by Assyria.
• Jeremiah 30:13You have no defender for your case. There is no remedy for your sores, and no healing for you.
• 2 Kings 24:7Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, for the king of Babylon took everything that had belonged to the king of Egypt, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
• Isaiah 20:5Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.
• Isaiah 30:1Woe to the rebellious children! This is the Lord’s declaration. They carry out a plan, but not mine; they make an alliance, but against my will, piling sin on top of sin.
• Isaiah 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and who depend on horses! They trust in the abundance of chariots and in the large number of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel, and they do not seek the Lord.
• Jeremiah 22:22The wind will take charge of all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your evil.
• Jeremiah 4:30And you, devastated one, what are you doing that you dress yourself in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, that you enhance your eyes with makeup? You beautify yourself for nothing. Your lovers reject you; they intend to take your life.
• Jeremiah 25:9I am going to send for all the families of the north’ — this is the Lord’s declaration — ‘and send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror and scorn, and ruins forever.
• Lamentations 1:2She weeps bitterly during the night, with tears on her cheeks. There is no one to offer her comfort, not one from all her lovers. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
• Ezekiel 23:9Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians she lusted for.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 22:20

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20Go up to Lebanon - Probably Anti-Libanus, which, together with Bashan and Abarim, which we here translate passages, were on the way by which the captives should be led out of their own country.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20The third example, Jehoiachin. With him all the best and noblest of the land were dragged from their homes to people the void places of Babylon. The passages - Really, Abarim, a range of mountains to the south of Gilead, opposite Jericho (see Numbers 27:12; Deuteronomy 32:49). Jeremiah names the chief ranges of mountains, which overlook the route from Jerusalem to Babylon, in regular order, beginning with Lebanon upon the north, then Bashan on the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-30Verses 20-30 The Jewish state is described under a threefold character. Very haughty in a day of peace and safety. Very fearful on alarm of trouble. Very much cast down under pressure of trouble. Many never are ashamed of their sins till brought by them to the last extremity. The king shall close his days in bondage. Those that think themselves as signets on God's right hand, must not be secure, but fear lest they should be plucked thence. The Jewish king…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20Jehoiakim might have thought that nearby nations, like Lebanon and Bashan, would help him during a crisis. They could not, because the Babylonians had already destroyed them. Bashan was in the region east of the Jordan River.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. Delivered in the reign of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah or Coniah), son of Jehoiakim; appended to the previous prophecy respecting Jehoiakim, on account of the similarity of the two prophecies. He calls on Jerusalem, personified as a mourning female, to go up to the highest points visible from Jerusalem, and lament there (see on Jr 3:21) the calamity of herself, bereft of allies and of her princes, who are one after the other being cast down. Bashan--north of…Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 22:20

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In the dictionaries

• Bashan
• Lebanon
• Passage
• Abarim
• Jeremiah (2)
• Lover
• Pass, Passage, Passenger
• Uriah; Uruah

Commentaries on Jeremiah 22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings