Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 22:20

20 Go up to Lebanon , and cry, and lift up thy voice in Bashan , and cry from the passages : for all thy lovers are destroyed .

The Hebrew Verb being feminine lets us know, that Ierusalem was the place to which this speech is directed. To the inhabitants of which the Prophet here calleth, to whom he calleth to go up to Lebanon.

And to Bashan, both Lebanon and Basan were▪ Hills or Places that looked towards Assyria, from whence the Jews looked for help, and had it sometimes, as 2 Kings 16.7. he calls to them ironically to go up to the mountainous parts of them, where standing and crying, they might be soonest and best heard.

What we Translate from the passages, others translate from the borders, or from the sides. Others from Abarim which is the name of a mountain, as well as Lebanon and Basan, vide Numb. 27.12. and 33.47. which seemeth to me the best interpretation, the meaning is, go and cry, for help from all places but it will be in vain, for

the Egyptians and Assyrians to whom thou were wont heretofore to fly, chusing rather to trust in them then in me, are themselves in the power or danger of the Chaldeans, who shall also destroy thee.