Jeremiah Chapter 18 verse 14 Holy Bible
Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? `or' shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
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Will the white snow go away from the top of Sirion? will the cold waters flowing from the mountains become dry?
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Shall the snow of Lebanon cease from the rock of the field? Shall the cool flowing waters coming from afar be dried up?
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Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
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Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?
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Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow?
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Will a man leave . . .?--The interpolated words "a man" pervert the meaning of the verse, which should run thus: Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold (or, with some commentators, "rushing ") flowing waters from afar (literally, strange, or, as some take it, that dash down) be dried up? The questions imply an answer in the negative, and assert in a more vivid form what had been expressed more distinctly, though less poetically, in Jeremiah 2:13. The strength of Jehovah was like the unfailing snow of Lebanon (the "white" or snow mountain, like Mont Blanc or Snowdon), like the dashing stream that flows from heights so distant that they belong to a strange country, and which along its whole course was never dried up, and yet men forsook that strength for their own devices. The "streams of Lebanon" appear as the type of cool refreshing waters in Song of Solomon 4:15. The term "rock of the field" is applied in Jeremiah 17:3; Jeremiah 21:13 to Jerusalem, but there is no reason why it should not be used of Lebanon or any other mountain soaring above the plain. The notion that the prophet spoke of the brook Gihon on Mount Zion, as fed, by an underground channel, from the snows of Lebanon, has not sufficient evidence to commend it, but the "dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion" (Psalm 133:3) presents, to say the least, a suggestive parallel. Possibly the prophet has the Jordan in his mind. Tacitus (Hist. v. 6) describes it as fed by the snows of Lebanon, the summit of which is, in his expressive language, faithful to its snows through the heat of summer.Parallel Commentaries ...HebrewDoes the snowשֶׁ֣לֶג (še·leḡ)Noun - masculine singular constructStrong's 7950: Snowof Lebanonלְבָנ֑וֹן (lə·ḇā·nō·wn)Noun - proper - feminine singularStrong's 3844: Lebanon -- a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israelever leaveהֲיַעֲזֹ֥ב (hă·ya·‘ă·zōḇ)Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singularStrong's 5800: To loosen, relinquish, permitits rockyמִצּ֛וּר (miṣ·ṣūr)Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular constructStrong's 6697: A cliff, a rock, boulder, a refuge, an edgeslopes?שָׂדַ֖י (śā·ḏay)Noun - masculine singularStrong's 7704: Field, landOrאִם־ (’im-)ConjunctionStrong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, notdo its coolקָרִ֖ים (qā·rîm)Adjective - masculine pluralStrong's 7119: Cool, quietwatersמַ֛יִם (ma·yim)Noun - masculine pluralStrong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semenflowingנוֹזְלִֽים׃ (nō·wz·lîm)Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine pluralStrong's 5140: To flow, trickle, drop, distillfrom a distanceזָרִ֥ים (zā·rîm)Adjective - masculine pluralStrong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adulteryever run dry?יִנָּתְשׁ֗וּ (yin·nā·ṯə·šū)Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine pluralStrong's 5428: To pull or pluck up, root outJump to PreviousAfar Cease Cold Cool Country Distant Dried Dry Fail Failed Field Flow Flowing Foreign Forsake Forsaken Lebanon Mountains Open Plucked Rock Rocky Run Sirion Slopes Snatched Snow Sources Strange Streams Top Vanish Water Waters White