Jeremiah 22:20-23

New Living Translation

²⁰ Weep for your allies in Lebanon.
    Shout for them in Bashan.
Search for them in the regions east of the river.^[a]
    See, they are all destroyed.
    Not one is left to help you.
²¹ I warned you when you were prosperous,
    but you replied, ‘Don’t bother me.’
You have been that way since childhood—
    you simply will not obey me!
²² And now the wind will blow away your allies.
    All your friends will be taken away as captives.
    Surely then you will see your wickedness and be ashamed.
²³ It may be nice to live in a beautiful palace
    paneled with wood from the cedars of Lebanon,
but soon you will groan with pangs of anguish—
    anguish like that of a woman in labor.