Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
Go up to Lebanon and cry - Delivered in the reign of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah or Conia), son of Jehoiachim; appended to the previous prophecy respecting Jehoiachim, 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 (Jeremiah 3:21, note) the calamity of herself, bereft of allies and of her princes, who are one after the other being cast down.
In Bashan - north of the region beyond Jordan; the mountains of Antilibanus are referred to (Psalms 68:15).
Cry from the passages - namely, of the rivers (Judges 12:6); or else the borders of the country (1 Samuel 13:23, "the passage of Michmash"): the passes between the rocks of the mountains (1 Samuel 14:4). Maurer translates 'Abarim' a mountainous tract beyond Jordan, opposite Jericho, "before Nebo," and south of Bashan; this accords with the mention of the mountains Lebanon and Bashan (Numbers 27:12; Numbers 33:47).
All thy lovers are destroyed - the allies of Judea, especially Egypt, now unable to help the Jews, being crippled by the King of Babylon, who "had taken, from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt" (2 Kings 24:7).