20 You people of Yehudah, go up to Lebanon and cry out.

Shout in the Bashan region.

Cry out from the Avarim mountains,

because all your ‘lovers’ have been destroyed.

21 I warned you when you were still secure—

you said that you wouldn’t listen.

That’s been your way since your youth,

that you haven’t taken any notice of my instructions.

22 The wind will drive away all your ‘shepherds’,

and your ‘lovers’ will go into captivity.

Then you’ll be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.

23 You who live in Lebanon,

nested there among the cedars,

but how you’ll groan when your labour pains come to you,

like a woman giving birth.